Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

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.

Thank you. I'll go to the Member from Range Lake.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So for the $1.9 million for the agency nurses, does the Minister have any detail on what that is inclusive of? Do we have overtime costs, travel costs, accommodation costs; is there a breakdown she can provide? Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I don't have that level of detail here. I'm not sure if -- no, I don't have that level of detail, Mr. Chair.

Okay, thank you. I'll go to the Member from Range Lake.

Is the -- would the Minister indicate how much of this is in compensation -- direct compensation to the agencies?

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, it -- there is both, in terms of it being the cost of the contracts which would be the salary benefits to the nurses that are providing services, as well as some travel costs and accommodation costs if there's folks who are coming in from outside and require such additional costs. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Member from Range Lake.

Nothing further, thank you.

Okay, thank you. Next on my list I have is the Member from Great Slave.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you to the previous Member for asking for the substantiation on the TB outbreak. I'm curious how many staff were required for this expenditure. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I can tell you that with respect to the public health nurses, there were seven nurses involved. Community health had two staff involved. Public health practitioners had two folks involved. There was a physician -- one physician involved, lab technologists involved, two laboratory clerks involved, one medical radiation technologist involved. Obviously, some of those individuals, this is not necessarily full-time work and wouldn't -- would likely have required some additional efforts and additional time and staffing in order to manage the expanding workload. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Member from Great Slave.

Thank you. So just for clarification, the folks who helped on the surge response for the outbreak, their salary is then costed to this item? Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm not sure that they would have their salaries entirely costed to this, Mr. Chair. I mean, I can certainly -- would expect that it's more to do with additional costing and not necessarily exclusive costing. I can double check. I'd have to go back and look at, you know, what their base salaries are or whether there was overtime incurred, and I don't have that breakdown here.

Okay, thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Great Slave.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, no, I would appreciate seeing that if it could be provided as well as the costing around the additional lab work, x-rays, and travel that the Minister mentioned. It just seems like an awful lot of money for a short amount of time but perhaps with more information, I'll be able to understand that better. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Nothing further.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. First I wanted to ask a question about an additional -- well, almost half a million dollars in funding for the in-territory child and family services program within the Tlicho Community Services Agency. Can the Minister clarify why there's such a large amount of funds needed for just this particular region now, so whether -- those costs must have been unexpected somehow? So what happened that created these new or additional expenses in child and family services for the Tlicho Community Services Agency? Thank you, Mr. Chair.