Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, I appreciate the lengthy explanation or overview of -- I know there's been a lot going on. So my concern is that we don't necessarily plan ahead enough for future years for all of the basically asset management, but the repairs, the refurbishments, the major, you know, capital improvements that we know we're going to need within the power system, can the Minister assure us that, in fact, money is being set aside or has been set aside for all of the known repairs and refurbishments within the power system, say, in the next three years, or are we going to continue to see supplementary estimates come forward when, you know, facilities need to be repaired or refurbished in the future? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Minister of Finance.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I have some notes from NTPC owing to a different hat, but I don't have the full capital plan in front of me. I can assure Members, but also the public, that -- so the GNWT, for example, has a 20-year needs plan. NTPC also has a capital plan, and items like the surge tank were on the capital plan. So in terms of knowing the different needs, I think there's a fairly well-known set of needs. Bluefish and Snare, for example, also have breakdowns in the longer term plan about the need to replace those very aging pieces of infrastructure as well and to bring them back and to bring them up to a more modern capacity and then to potentially include the more modern facilities such as, you know, moving generators from the middle of the communities when they are being replaced and including increased battery systems to optimize the systems. All of these things, we do have some cost estimates and have them in the plans, but I don't have the -- you know, and I -- I don't want to say a number lest it make front page news. But I don't have all of that number sitting, waiting, and available. So projects get advanced in bits and pieces. Example, fuel tanks up in the High Arctic were part of a disaster mitigation effort. So there was funding available. They advanced those projects because there was a funding source available. But when there's not funding sources immediately available, it's a matter of prioritizing the items that appear to be the greatest risk and/or the greatest impact or need still generally owing to risk. And that's what advances. So that's where the Taltson, you know, upgrade got advanced. Weren't expecting to be doing the surge tank. Now we're doing the surge tank because of the need to do so quickly. I realize that's not completely answering in the sense, you know, is there's money set aside. Well, there's money set aside every year in the capital plan. And there's a limited amount that's available every year in the capital plan, and we try to advance what is -- again, meets the greatest need for all of the needs across the territory. Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Can the Minister commit to ensuring that the power corporation has a comprehensive costed asset management plan that, you know, has realistic assessments of the condition of all of the assets, what should be the cost for regular maintenance to keep them in as best working condition as we can, and then what the costs will be to ensure that they're repaired in a timely manner and then ultimately replaced. I understand there's work ongoing, some new policies around modernizing the operations -- or management of the power corporation. I wonder if the Minister can explain whether some of those include new policies or practices around asset management and whether we can look forward to seeing a comprehensive costed asset management plan. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Minister of Finance.

Madam Chair, I actually think I might be back in front of committee tomorrow wearing my other hat with power corporation but also with power corporation officials with me. So if I might suggest -- I'd prefer to defer that question and then what I could do, Madam Chair, knowing that this is a public opportunity -- I do think it's very important the public know the circumstances we're in -- I can perhaps table a letter to follow up from -- as a further detail of some of this information just to -- it'll be more fulsome it comes through that discussion tomorrow. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay. Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2025-2026, Department of Finance, directorate, not previously authorized, $12 million. Does the committee agree?

Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2025-2026, Department of Finance, total department, not previously authorized, $12 million. Does the committee agree?

Committee, we will now consider the Department of Health and Social Services on page 7.

Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2025-2026, Department of Health and Social Services, administrative and support services, not previously authorized, $263,000. Does the committee agree?

Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2025-2026, Department of Health and Social Services, health and social programs, not previously authorized, $427,000. Does the committee agree?

Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2025-2026, Department of Health and Social Services, supplementary health benefits, not previously authorized. Member for Great Slave.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I think it's a very quick clarification question. This would be around the national strategy for drugs for rare diseases initiative with Canada. It's fully offset by Canada. My question to the Minister is whether or not this funding will help pay for folks who might have been fully addressed by our previous extended health care benefits on the schedule of specified disease list. If she has that amount of detail, I'd love to know. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Minister of Finance.

Thank you, Madam Chair. A portion of this funding does support the budget that's under the extended health benefits, but exactly the impacts of that I would have to come back to the Member on that. Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Great Slave.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Nothing further.

Okay. Thank you. Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2025-2026, Department of Health and Social Services, supplementary health benefits, not previously authorized, $2,813,000. Does the committee agree?

Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2025-2026, Department of Health and Social Services, total department, not previously authorized, $3,503,000. Does the committee agree?