Thank you. Member for Inuvik Boot Lake.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you for that answer. And I'll do one more, and then I'll -- I'm sure others would like to ask some questions on this.

The community clinics and health centres, likely the same answer. I'm not going to assume anything, but likely there was contracts in there. It did go from 88. I note the actuals 88 to 93 to now they're 114. I'm hoping, I'm liken to -- I hope that this means that our community clinics and health centres are getting more staff and getting more services. But can the Minister kind of talk about the increase to 114,930 in the community clinics and health centres, please.

Thank you. Minister of health.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm going to pass that on to the ADM Mathison.

Thank you. ADM Mathison.

Thank you. Member for Inuvik Boot Lake.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thanks for those answers, and I'm good for right now. Thank you.

Thank you. Next I have Member for the Sahtu.

Thank you, Madam Chair. My question is on page 206 on the northern wellness initiative. I understand it expires at the end of this fiscal year. Is there any work being done on a renewal? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Minister of health.

Thank you, Madam Chair. That is -- the work is being done, yes, on that new agreement.

Thank you. Member for the Sahtu.

Mahsi, I'm glad to hear that. I'm looking at -- and being mindful, I'm being mindful of the Restoring Balance, and looking at the programs our government, through this department, is offering, and is it a practice of the department to do a mid-year surplus review? I'll give you an example.

After six months, doing a review if this program is really not being accessed or delivered, it seems to go on a priority 2 or 3. Is it a practice of the department to take the surplus and move it over to a more important accessible oversubscribed program? Thank you.

Thank you. Minister of health.

Thank you, Madam Chair. That is one thing that the health doesn't have is problems with surpluses so we do not have money to move around. Normally we don't -- you know, any money that we do -- I have yet to see any surpluses, sorry. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Member for the Sahtu.

Yeah, this is more of a comment, Madam Chair. Yes, I understand the challenges of our government providing health care, particularly to the smaller remote communities, but I'm just curious on the financial practices of surplus reviews from programs. I particularly look at this one here on page 206. Let's see what it is. A healthy family program, actuals came in at 292 and our mains are expected 292. So if it's remaining the same, it tells me is anybody accessing that program? If not, can we move it to -- move the funds to a more oversubscribed program? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Minister of health.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, that contribution actually goes to the Tlicho government as a contribution. Thank you. And it's fully subscribed.

Thank you. Next, I have Member for Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Okay, I have a number of different questions under lots of different items here so I'm not sure if I'll get through it in ten minutes, but maybe I'll get a second chance.

I wanted to delve into child and family services to start. So it's my understanding from reviewing the annual reports from child and family services that about 25 percent of CFS staff positions are vacant and that number is even higher when we're looking at frontline staff. Can the Minister comment on whether there's a plan to try to address those vacancies which appear to be sort of a longstanding, chronic problem. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Minister of Health and Social Services.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, this year we're hoping that because of the negotiated contract with the labour market supplement that applies now to child and family services workers, and there's different areas in that. I don't have the collective agreement in front of me to all of the different parts of child and family services. But that would -- you know, I would hope that that would help to encourage that. I know that within the department, it is a challenging department and, you know -- and I think that working, you know -- many people working in that area, it is a difficult area, department, to work on, so supporting those staff, and I think that's part of, like, the plan, you know, and then supporting with our recruitment and retention, is to making sure that we're reaching out to them as well to know within the next -- you know, for the plan is to how to support those staff so that they feel -- you know, stay in their positions. Thank you, Madam Chair.