Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, committee. Committee Report 17-17(5) is concluded.

Committee, we’ll continue with the orders here. Committee, we agreed to consider Bill 47, An Act to Amend the Child and Family Services Act. I’ll go to the Minister responsible for the bill to introduce it. Minister Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Moses. The motion is in order. To the motion.

Thank you, committee. Does committee also agree that we can consider clauses in groups of 10?

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Committee, we have a motion on the floor. The motion is in order and is not debatable. The motion is carried.

---Carried

Committee, general comments. We’ll allow the Minister the opportunity to reply to general comments. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Moses. Continuing on with general comments I have Mr. Bouchard.

Thank you, committee. At this time I would like to thank our officials here today, Ms. DeLancey and Mr. Druyan, for joining us. Thank you very much. Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort the witnesses out of the House.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to echo the words of our chairman, Mr. Moses. This was a very thought-out piece of legislation and I do want to applaud this and it is hard sometimes for Members to do this publically. I do want to applaud the hard work, I believe, this department has gone through on preparing the public, and I will say the public in its large sense, on this piece of legislation coming forward.

It made the work of committee a lot easier. A lot of stakeholders from across the North who we talked to had a very good appreciation of what I would consider a very good understanding...

Does committee agree that Bill 44, Hospital Insurance and Health and Social Services Administration Act, is now ready for third reading?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Again, I want to echo the substantive work that went in behind this review of this act. I can assure the public that reviewing financial acumen in detail isn’t exactly sometimes the most palatable work a legislator does but it is, indeed, one that looks after the public interest, especially the issue of looking after the public purse. So for that I believe due diligence was achieved and harmony at the end.

I want to spend just a little bit of time on one of the motions that was brought forth with the Minister and, of course, there was concurrence, but I’m a firm believer...

Clauses 31 to 33.

---Clauses 31 through 33 inclusive approved