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

The emergency repair program (audio) my constituents (audio) this repair program. How does this (audio) emergency repair program.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The emergency repair program is an application-based program. (audio) district office the local (audio) the district office to apply for this program. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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

Thank you. (audio) program (audio) together (audio) preventative and emergency repair program. That budget is low compared to emergency repair program. (audio) because a lot of is (audio), so (audio) there's a lot of people that are, you know, (audio) especially living in the community where everybody is flown in.

So preventative maintenance program, a lot of people need that program to -- from further -- especially now with the climate change and things are changing and, you know, it does have a major impact, the house is -- the climate change. So how popular is this program? Like, are you getting a lot of applications? Does the housing get a lot of application for this program? Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. For the 2023-2024 fiscal year, the program was undersubscribed. But, again, as President Erin Kelly mentioned earlier, in an earlier question, one of the things that Housing NWT plans to do is how they communicate these programs throughout the Northwest Territories, the availability of the program, who is eligible for the program, and the different programs that are available too. Because coming into housing, you know, I thought one or two, but there's a number of different programs available. So how we communicate that to people that really need this program support, so we're doing more communication efforts. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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

Thank you. Thank you for that information. Okay, so that the eligibility, is it based on income threshold? Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Okay, thank you. Is there any other Members that have questions? Okay, I'm going to continue on. Seeing no further questions, we will move -- we will not be voting on activity total.

Moving on to housing operations and support, starting on page 394. Are there any questions? I'm going to go to the Member from Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I wanted to ask about the work with the LHOs, the local housing organizations, on apprenticeships. I'm hoping this is an okay segment to bring that up, but. I know that Housing NWT has an in-House apprenticeship program and have been trying to support up to 12 apprenticeship assignments each year. Can the Minister tell us whether or not they manage to actually find 12 apprentices in the last year or how many apprenticeships did Housing NWT actually support? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Currently, Housing NWT has ten apprentices on hand. We're working to 12 and hoping to increase that to 15 in the next fiscal year. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you for clarifying. So that is good to know and that we have plans for the additional three. Does the Minister have any insights on what is -- what are some of the barriers to trying to fill up all those positions and whether there's opportunities for broader partnerships with ECE or Aurora College to try to make sure that we can fill up all those apprenticeship spots? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Dr. Kelly will provide more information about barriers and other opportunities working within. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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

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

Great. And I also noted, so in the business plan -- and here I'm looking at page 421 -- there's a goal to work with ITI to foster the development of innovative approaches to housing construction and expand capacity also in the repair and renovations sector. And so the specific goal there that Housing NWT has set for itself is 16 training sessions. I assume per year but maybe the Minister can clarify. And some of the examples so far are some sort of basic training sessions conducted with LHOs. Can the Minister explain what is the vision here, because it seems like a one-off training on safety or is not going to necessarily get us to the innovative approaches to sort of boosting our housing construction or repair and renovation sector. So I wonder if the Minister or the Housing NWT has sort of a vision here of what kind of training we actually need and what kinds of sessions will get us there. That might be a bit vague, but I wonder if the Minister or her staff can comment. Thank you, Mr. Chair.