Thank you. Member for Great Slave.

Thank you, Madam Chair. That's a little bit concerning to me considering there are entire regions missing off that list, notably South Slave and the Delta. Is there anything that we can be doing to seek out further pots? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Minister of health.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, as, you know, I mean, our chief public health officer I think is the lead in this area and I know that there is lots of work going on, you know, within her office on this specifically. But I mean, we can bring back the question to what is the issues on why it's only in these. And I know it's restricted to funding but if there are other things than what the costs might be to expand that, we can find out that information and give that back to committee. Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Great Slave.

Thank you, I appreciate that. I believe I might be done for this so I will cede my time to another Member. Thank you.

Thank you. Next, I have Inuvik Boot Lake.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I have to ask it now, so I'll start with the compensation and benefits on this side as well. So I note that in 2023-2024, 14,904, 14,690 in the main estimates, 904 in the actuals. Then, as been explained to me, 16,494 in the revised estimates likely due to the retro pay, but then I note again it's down to 14,668 in the main estimates for 2026 which is, again, a little less than it was in 2023-2024. Again, I'm just wondering if there is -- if I'm missing something here or if there were any positions decreased or if this is just -- or positions that were maybe not filled that were no longer budgeted for. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Minister of health.

Thank you, Madam Chair. So the changes in this line here are because of the sunset of the cost share agreements. There are the northern wellness agreement funding. So with that funding, because of the timing of the negotiating of that agreement, it wasn't done in time for these mains but there are -- there are increases in those areas. But for this budget, it shows a decrease because of the sunsetting. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Member for Boot Lake.

So no cuts to positions, then, and no positions that weren't -- that were vacant then, that aren't being filled; can I just get clarity on that.

Thank you. Minister of health.

Yes, you're correct.

Member for Inuvik Boot Lake.

Thank you. I'll just pivot to specialty services, Madam Chair. And I note in the comments what we know what specialty services refer to, and there's a lot of ologies in there that I likely can't pronounce, but that's great. And I note that it says treatment provided in the NWT. So does this mean going from $29 million to $36 million and now to $43 million that we are now providing more of these specialty services in the territory than we have previously where we had to pay that through -- likely through Alberta care or in other provinces; is that what we're doing? Are we ramping up all those ologies in the Northwest Territories, Madam Chair? Thank you.

Thank you. Minister of health.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm going to get the ADM Mathison to explain that section. Thank you, Madam Chair.

ADM Mathison.

Thank you. Member for Inuvik Boot Lake.

Thank you for that. Thank you, Madam Chair. And I'm super happy that we have all these ologies that we provide to our residents.

I'm not sure if you have this number, but can you kind of out of that -- you know, it's a fairly significant increase obviously to that line item, and you mentioned forced growth and you mentioned the medical association new contract. Does the Minister have kind of a breakdown of what kind of made up the majority of that increase? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. ADM Mathison.