Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, so seeking $586,000 for added expenses as a result of this outbreak. This was -- some might recall that the CPHO declared a TB outbreak in Yellowknife July 2nd of 2024, and that resulted in incremental costs. Some of the things that occurred, there was -- there were some 532 contact points relating to just a few cases, and as a result of which a fair bit of effort that was undertaken to identify those contacts, locate them, some additional supports from the public health nurses to do the contact tracing of all those individuals, then of course supported an additional costs to the clients who were receiving treatment and those that were contacted obviously increased testing, and so some additional workload to manage the additional testing and the lab work that was required, increased workload to radiologists. There's -- chest x-rays are a part of the diagnostic tool for some of the individuals who were identified or contacted. In addition, because of the contact tracing and the nature of people's movements, there was some staff travelling to communities. And last but not least, again, some additional lab supplies to help be able to move this through quickly so that there could be a prevention of any more extensive outbreak. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
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