Okay, thank you for that. I appreciate that is important work. Is this a term position, a casual, or some kind of secondment; can you just explain the type of position that this is. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I will go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I would want to confirm although I can say at this point the position was pre-existing. And I am only hesitating in that with funding sunsetting on a position that often is a term position, that is often what winds up happening when a position is fully funded by external funding but, again, at some point our own rules will kick in and put a term position in to indeterminate. I don't know what status this one is in right now, Mr. Chair. But right now this funding does extend the term out to March 31st of 2030. That suggests to me that it makes it indeterminate but, again, I don't have that here. If I am incorrect about that, I will correct the record. Thank you.

Okay, thank you. I will go back to the Member from YK North.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's all for this section.

Okay, thank you. Are there any further questions from Members? I will go to the Member from the Deh Cho.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have First Nations and Inuit home and community care agreement, and it says that's administrative and support services as well it's fully offset by the Government of Canada. Those are -- that's because you're looking at administrative, is that positions that -- it's $194,000. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I will go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, so the First Nations and Inuit home and community care program, as the Member mentioned, is fully offset, comes revenues from Indigenous Services Canada. This supports home care, nursing, respite services, chronic disease management, palliative care, day programming for elders and seniors, as well as some of the program administrative fees associated with that. This is an agreement that we have had with the federal government in funding in different amounts now since 2013. It's -- this year we're seeing it here just because the timing of the agreement did not align up to having it included within the normal budgetary cycle, and so it's coming forward as a sup. But it has been a fairly consistent source of funding for these programs for some time. Thank you.

Thank you. I will go back to the Member from the Deh Cho.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Can I ask the Minister if this is a program where there's a new program that's service -- service fees I think it's called. Anyways if a person needs a long-term care bed and they're still in the hospital, this is where the government charges them $34 a day. Is this part of that program? Thank you.

Thank you. I will go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, Mr. Chair, this is not connected to that program. I do have some information with respect to some different fees that now are associated but it's -- the fees associated to accessing long-term care is not associated to this, Mr. Chair.

Okay, thank you. I will go back to the Member from the Deh Cho.

Nothing further for that, Mr. Chair. But I am going to look for that information. Thank you.

Okay, thank you. Are there any further questions from Members on this section? Seeing none. Seeing no further questions.

Department of Health and Social Services, administrative support services, not previously authorized, $367,000. Does committee agree?

Thank you. The Department of Health and Social Services, operations expenditures, health and social services programs, not previously authorized, $12,603,000. Are there any questions? Okay, I am going to go to the Member from Great Slave.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, similar question to before. Can the Minister please provide a substantiation for the line item on providing funding to stabilize primary care services in the amount of $2,677,000, and if her list of breakdown by community, by staff, etcetera, would be amenable to doing so for this item as well. Thank you.

Thank you. I will go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And so, indeed, it would be -- formally under this particular program item that the positions would be increased, and this is -- this was driven and due -- you know, due to the discussions amongst Members of the House at the last budget negotiations and a desire to ensure that there is adequate funding to help provide frontline community positions. We have here 22 different positions. A community health nurse, nurse practitioner, primary care nurse practitioner, and nurse case manager, all in Inuvik, five positions in total. Community health nurse for Lutselk'e, community health nurse in Paulatuk, primary care nurse in Tuktoyaktuk, community health nurse in Ulukhaktok, primary care nurse practitioner for Whati. And remaining positions are in the form of community health nurse and a primary care health nurse practitioner in Yellowknife. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I will go to the Member from Great Slave.

Thank you. I will go to the Member from YK North.