I'll leave it there for now. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. Is there any further questions? Seeing no further questions. I remind the committee that the estimates for Housing Northwest Territories are included as information items only. The committee will not be voting on the activity total.

Moving on to the homelessness program starting on page 389. Are there any questions? Yes, I'm going to go to the Member from Great Slave.

Sorry, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I apologize; I lost my hearing piece there. It's hard to hear otherwise. So did you say page 389, please, Mr. Chair?

389, yes.

Thank you very much. So in the item of emergency shelters, I'm just curious can the Minister please confirm that the reason the funding for that line item has dropped since 2023-2024 is because of a change in which department is actioning that line item or a different reason? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Dr. Kelly here will provide that information regarding emergency shelters. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the president.

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

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So as I was saying earlier in my Member's statement to the Premier today, it did take me a while to understand the differences between the portfolios been EIA and housing and just clarifying who is in charge of what when it comes to transitional and supportive housing versus where Housing NWT is public housing and homeownership programs that -- and the like.

Can the Minister please clarify how she sees the relationship between EIA and Housing NWT working in lockstep to create more options for transitional and supportive housing or if, indeed, Housing NWT is involved. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. An important question, especially around the transitional housing piece. But, again, like the Premier stated earlier, these homelessness and housing solutions, we need comprehensive and sustainable solutions around housing and homelessness in the Northwest Territories. So what we do as a department is we work with EIA together and have these discussions around shelters in the Northwest Territories and work in partnership, have discussions, have working groups around the homelessness transitional housing piece. 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. I was trying to relay an example of urgency and decision-making, and I know that more cooks in the kitchen sometimes slows thing down, but is the Minister finding that there are clearer targets and pathways forward for these kinds of transitional and supportive housing pieces? It's -- I recognize there's lots of work going on in the background that we may not see as Regular Members, if it's -- you're basing your work off of the homelessness strategy, the Premier is basing his work off the homelessness strategy. But I just want to make sure that everybody's pulling in the same direction. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Dr. Erin Kelly will provide some more information around that question because it's important that we get to specifics. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the president.

Okay, thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Great Slave.

Okay, so just for -- thank you for that. Just for clarity, then, if there are industry partners or private multi-family dwelling property owners that are looking to partner with Housing NWT and/or EIA to start developing more options for both the homelessness and transitional supportive housing piece but also just more units available in Yellowknife for public housing clients, who do they go to? Because it just doesn't always seem to line up for clarity around who is holding specific reins on any particular file. Thank you Mr. Chair.

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

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll refer that to Dr. Erin Kelly. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the president.