Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.
Debates of Feb. 13th, 2025
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Lesa Semmler Inuvik Twin Lakes
I'm going to give that to the ADM so I don't bungle that all up and confuse everybody.
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Jeannie Mathison
Thank you, Mr. Chair. They are estimates, but it's related to the work that we've done with the authorities over the year in advance which feeds into the forced growth, like any funding requests, any supplementary funding requests, those are all factored into the number that we determine is needed to give to the authority to address the areas that have been identified in the information item. So it's kind of an evolving process, but it's meant to be reflective of what the authorities need to deliver the services that they're being asked to deliver. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Kieron Testart Range Lake
Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So do you reconcile -- sorry, to the Minister. Does the Minister reconcile that -- like, the line items in the information item to the actual budget that will be presented to the Minister by the authorities before February 15th? So, like, we see what's here in this book. When they get the other document, do they -- when is that reconciliation? Is it after this is approved, or does that all happen before April 1st? Thank you.
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Lesa Semmler Inuvik Twin Lakes
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, that is what exactly is going to be happening right now between the department and NTHSSA. They go back and forth and reconcile where -- like, you'll see, like if you look at health and social programs, so the allocation for the $370 million to go for health and social programs, they will have a detail between the department finance and the NTHSSA's finance to reconcile where they're spending those dollars within this department. And so when you go through the future sections that there's every section that they have, they have details and that comes to us, and then I approve it to move forward as long as it's within all of the things that we've approved through sups that carry on into the next year and the budget that -- whatever the budget that is approved. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Kieron Testart Range Lake
Thank you. And it all makes sense, the public accounts at the end, the end of the year, so I'm not worried about, like, the money not being accounted for. It's more if we are -- I guess if, let's say, we negotiate for a hundred more nurses or something like that, which is a large number, but if we say you're going to give us that and it's a billion dollars, we're having very well compensated nurses; where would you put that? Like, how would we know as MLAs that that money that we are voting for you is going to go to the authority and being spent in that way? Just because we don't have that level of detail. Is it through a specific contribution like on the page here, or would it be just grant funding that -- authorities funding and you work with them to figure out how to spend it to meet that commitment? Thank you.
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Lesa Semmler Inuvik Twin Lakes
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I'm going to, if I may, pass that on to the ADM. She can explain that, how that works.
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Jeannie Mathison
Thank you, Mr. Chair. And so that process that the Minister spoke about, about budget review and approval, that is exactly the process where if we had funding for a hundred new nurses and we had it in the budget when we were -- when we'd be looking at the authority's budget, we'd be looking for have they allocated the money to those hundred positions, and that's part of -- that influences the recommendation for approval.
The other thing that I think is important for us, and I missed mentioning it earlier when I was speaking about the process, is once we get a recommendation to the Minister on approving the budget and she approves the budget, we then enter into a contribution agreement with each authority that lays out specifically reminding that this is the money that you're being given, this is what the money is for, these are your reporting requirements, please submit your variance reports by this date, please submit your audited financial statements by this date, please do other performance indicators by this date. It's a very comprehensive document that kind of lays out what's required of them in the year ahead. And through that variance reporting is where we then keep an eye on is the money being spent, you know, as it was directed to be spent. And it's an ongoing iterative process that then informs the next budget development the next year. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Kieron Testart Range Lake
Thank you. So just for absolute certainly, the Minister does approve all spending at NTHSSA or any other authority at the end of the day? Thank you. It is the Minister who gets final approval of those budgets? Thank you.
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Lesa Semmler Inuvik Twin Lakes
Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, once they -- once the department has done all of the checks and balances and then I meet with them and it falls within line with whatever that we have approved through our process, then -- and once I get the recommendation that everything has been checked and balanced, and then I approve it, and then the finance team does do the monitoring of that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Kieron Testart Range Lake
Thank you. Is this number inclusive, then, of the public administrator's salary and compensation? Thank you.
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