Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.
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Vince McKay Hay River South
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm going to ask Catherine to respond to that. Thanks.
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Catherine Boyd
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just to clarify the Member's question, I believe you're referring to the actuals are twice as big as the budget. So it's over expenditures due to such things as unfunded positions, various other -- I think it's unfunded positions. I'll leave it at that, Mr. Chair. Thank you.
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Kieron Testart Range Lake
Thank you. So you've -- so the -- is this part of the sustainability exercises? Thank you.
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Gary Brennan
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, so, no, that's not related to fiscal sustainability exercises or any other type of reduction. It's just an overspend in 2023-2024. As Ms. Boyd alluded to earlier, some of it was basically unfunded positions, and also during that year we had the incremental expenditures related to some of the disasters, including the fires that year. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Kieron Testart Range Lake
Thank you. So these -- so we're not anticipating that we need to maintain the same level of resource for this upcoming year I guess on -- like, hopefully we're not anticipating another evacuation or something like that. I just want to make sure, like does the department have the resources in these functions that it needs to maintain its level planning and preparedness in case there is an emergency? Thank you.
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Vince McKay Hay River South
Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. We do feel comfortable that we have the right amount of staff right now. We also have standup staff available that we've recruited for in case of emergencies, and think that's still an active posting on the GNWT website there.
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The Chair Richard Edjericon
Thank you. Next on my list I got the Member from Inuvik Boot Lake. No further questions? Okay, thank you. Is there any further questions from the Members? Seeing none, please turn to page 356.
Municipal and Community Affairs, directorate, operations expenditure summary, 2025-2026 Main Estimates, $4,407,000. Does the committee agree?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Richard Edjericon
Thank you. Moving on to the emergency management beginning on page 359. Are there any questions? I'm going to go to the Member of Frame Lake.
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Julian Morse Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I continue to recognize that we've just got too many darn lakes in this Assembly.
Mr. Chair, has MACA considered assuming responsibility for other departmental emergency disaster programs such as hunters and trappers disaster compensation, fire damage compensation? These are both programs that are currently contained under ECE to perhaps -- or sorry, ECC. Thank you, Member from Great Slave -- to integrate service delivery and streamline emergency response responsibilities within the GNWT. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Vince McKay Hay River South
Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. We haven't, but a lot of those programs are related essentially with that department. For an example, like hunters and trappers with ECC, yes. That follows along that line of -- you know, the regulations and the, yeah, hunting and trapping rules and regs and all that stuff, so.
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Julian Morse Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm glad I'm not the only Member that stumbles over our EC departments.
Mr. Chair, are there plans to update the disaster assistance policy? Thanks.
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