Yes, thank you. There will still be roles within the ministry and the department as well as, you know, actually -- and so there will be -- within the authorities, there will be more clarified roles and who's doing -- and the operations and so, yes, there will be still authority -- or a department straddling of how they work together. Thank you.

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

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Is there a way we can monitor whether or not we've done a good job at this? I know there's a lot of things around reforming health care and systems that it's hard to point to a specific tangible outcome but at some point, we have to know whether we've done it well or not, right, whether we've achieved our goal of transforming the system in a positive way. Are there indicators that you can point to, or is the plan to sort of survey stakeholders and staff, or how will we know whether we've done the job that we set out to do in this case? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

If I may get a clarification, are you just speaking specifically in this -- in the public health section? Okay. If I may, I'll pass it on to the deputy minister.

Thank you. I'll go to the deputy minister.

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

Yeah, thanks for that. I mean, I guess what I was getting at was are we expecting to save money at the end of the day by sorting out some of the roles and responsibilities? Are we expecting to have more effective responses, for example, to outbreaks of certain contagious infections or diseases and can we set some indicators that can show that we will have improvements in, like, how quickly we can contain, you know, contagious outbreaks of something or other, or get test kits to communities, or are we going to be saving money? Are any of those things included in the indicators of monitoring what we're trying to do? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, within public health and population health, the main goal is to have people working in the frontline for the health promotion piece. You know, we go out -- when you look at, you know, the things that fall under there, is immunization. We need to make sure that, you know, people -- our immunization rates are up so that means that we're seeing less of those diseases. When we think about population health in that same area is TB. You know, we had a -- like we talked about, we had a recent TB break. We should be able to manage those and better -- you know, on our surveillance and so doing more surveillance. So how it will be measured is we will see decrease in, you know, communicable diseases and that goes from all of those things that our vaccinations provide. And so if there is ways to, you know -- if it is -- it's not necessarily a cost saving thing. It's more an efficient of how people are working within the system so that they're better being able to reduce those instances. So better client outcomes. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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

Okay, thank you for that. That is good to hear confirmation that those kinds of tangible outcomes to people's health and how outbreaks are contained, that that will be monitored and included.

I just want to turn my last little bit here to community mental wellness and addictions recovery. So does this line item include detox; you know, either detox beds in facilities or detox services offered in some other way? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I will pass that to the ADM for the detail in that section.

Okay, thank you. I'm going to go back to the ADM.

Thank you. Next on my list to speak is the Member from Great Slave

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd also like to ask some questions about population and public health services.

As the Minister knows, there has been difficulty keeping the level of staff needed to provide COVID and flu vaccinations outside of the flu clinic that I think happened here in Yellowknife in November. I've also had constituents reach out and say, you know, I want to get vaccinations for travel, and that's not a possibility right now. I think that that was work to be resolved recently, which is great. So I guess my question is how are we planning to build capacity in vaccinations? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, you know, I think with what happened with the reduced services and what happened within Yellowknife, we've had a couple of times where we've had reduced services in the public health unit and where they've had to focus their staff were to make -- ensuring that, you know, children immunizations, routine immunizations were being completed, as well as working on the TB situation that we currently had. As well as they've had vacancies. However, I do know that there are some -- they are in the process of bringing on some new staff in that area. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you to the Minister for that. When it comes to outbreaks, which of course we don't want to see but, you know, have seen as recently as last year with the TB outbreaks as the Minister mentioned, how are we addressing surge capacity for public health to go out and address outbreaks as they arise? That's an area of concern I'm hearing about. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Minister.