Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So in regards to establishing a dashboard, we don't have any plans to put anything up there as of yet, but I will commit to checking with the department and see what we can do to put something out there so that there's the availability for residents to follow on what actions will be taken for all 35 recommendations. That being said, the recommendations that have been put out there, our goal, to make sure that we're committed to implementing them, following them, and making sure that our task is to have the least impact on communities that don't have the ability to fully implement what some of these recommendations are. For an example, they may not have the capacity to fully implement all the training right away and will need the government's support, which we will do.

So, again, to put that on a website or a database just for everybody to review, I don't know if that's possible, but I will commit to looking into it so we can see what we can do. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So in order to ensure accountability to achieving recommendations, we also have to be clear as to what the recommendations were actually saying or actually recommending. For example, Recommendation 19 is to create an emergency social services plan to address what will be done to support vulnerable populations in emergencies. The government has said it agrees but then offloads this responsibility once again to local communities when what the report said was missing is a territorial emergency social services plan because social services are a territorial responsibility.

Will the Minister ensure that a territorial emergency social services plan for vulnerable populations is created and that the GNWT will take a lead on implementing actions that we know ahead of time will be beyond local capacity, such as airlifting vulnerable groups or housing them together during evacuations? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As this involves more than just MACA, every community, every agency, every NGO, every department is responsible to have some form of emergency plan. These emergency plans are not always ran by the government. So, you know, a lot of this falls under EIA and with the emergency social services, but the goal is to have documented four emergency plans all vulnerable and residents who need assistance, to have the assistance available in the case of an emergency, whether it be a local emergency, small emergency, territorial emergency, or regional emergencies.

So our goal is to have these working groups in place in order to assure from the community level all the way up to the territorial government that these plans are in place to help residents navigate during an emergency. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs. Final supplementary. Member from Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So I know the Minister has mentioned over and over again that some of these responsibilities fall to local communities. Will the Minister ensure that funds are actually available for communities to implement the preparedness activities, the things they're committing to in their emergency plans, rather than simply offering templates, workshops, information? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Having been at the other end of this, I totally agree. We do supply a lot of funds to assist local communities in emergency planning. There are some funds available for training, whether it be on the ICS system, which the GNWT also does some of that training and support community governments in the ICS training. And part of that being we need to make sure that what services or training that's being provided is something that's needed or the community's capable of doing. Some of them might need the resources of other communities or the government.

So I will look at what we need for some of these communities, and we'll work with the community governments, continue to work with community governments on fulfilling their capacities and making sure that they're ready in the time an emergency as needed. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs. Oral questions. Member from Monfwi.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is for Minister of Finance. So my first question: Can the Minister of Finance provide a timeline of when elders with arrears and outstanding mortgages be completed within this fiscal year. With the high cost of living, especially in small communities, this will benefit many of our elders living on fixed income. Thank you.

Thank you, Member from Monfwi. Minister of Finance.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I can't provide a timeline. I can say that the Minister of housing and myself have actually spoken about this as recently as yesterday and that we are looking to see some solutions for this as quickly as possible. My hope is that there is a solution ready within this fiscal year. Obviously, at this point we've only had some initial discussions, the Minister and I, so I'm a bit hesitant to put that kind of a marker on it but I agree with the urgency. Thank you.

Thank you. Can the Minister provide information as to how many elders' arrears in writing off old mortgages files are completed. Currently, we still have many elders that their pensions are being garnished and they are on payment plans. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, that type of information, particularly where they are already under some form of a garnishment by the GNWT for these arrears, that information is held by the comptroller general's office, and I would be happy to get that and make sure that it is shared in an appropriate way. I want to make sure there's not any sharing of information that shouldn't be made public. But certainly the Member can -- I can make sure that using the tools of this House that the Member has that information. Thank you.

Final supplementary. Member from Monfwi.

Mr. Speaker, this is the same questions that I asked Minister of housing, so it still relates to finance, so do I need to --

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Okay. Okay, then, thank you. Thank you. Mr. Speaker, overcrowding is an unfortunate result of the ongoing housing crisis. Can the Minister commit to allocating additional houses in Tlicho communities aside from what is already allocated in the budget to deal with the overcrowding situation? Thank you.

That is a far stretch. If the Minister is willing to answer it, we will. If not, we'll have to bring it up there. Minister of Finance.

Mr. Speaker, I don't have the ability to allocate houses. But it does relate certainly to the work that myself and the Minister of housing are actively involved on, and there is shared responsibility in the mandate for the GNWT between Department of Finance and Housing NWT to work on the housing assessment. It's being led by housing. I know that Minister spoke to it yesterday. But the Department of Finance has been involved in support and certainly would be involved in support of arrears, dealing with arrears, and all of those issues in some ways do bundle together, Mr. Speaker, that they'll help improve the overall housing spectrum within the Northwest Territories. So certainly commit to continue working with my colleague and with the Member who certainly brings that firsthand knowledge of what's happening on the ground. So, again, I'll commit to getting those meetings moving, Mr. Speaker. Totally acknowledge the urgency. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister of Finance. Oral questions. Member from Great Slave.

Thank you, Member from Great Slave. Minister responsible for Housing NWT.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this is something that Housing NWT and the Department of Executive and Indigenous Affairs have been working on over the last year. With the facility itself, it looks like it's a bit delayed. We are still waiting for approvals from NAV CANADA and Transport Canada due to the facility being close to the airport. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, can the Minister speak to how long this process with those agencies has been going on? It's getting cold outside. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, absolutely. The process is getting long, and we are going to be heading into winter soon, so that's very concerning. We're hoping to have the facility opened by December. We have continuous discussions with infrastructure, with Transport Canada, with NAV CANADA. We have a builder awarded for the transitional housing facility, and the RFP did just recently close for the operations of the facility. So we're ready to go. We're just waiting on approvals. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.