David Ramsay

Statements in Debates

Debates of March 19, 2004 , (day 4)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks for that explanation, Mr. Minister. The next question I have is in terms of vacant positions, and I’ll ask you about your department. When a position is vacant for four, six, eight months, whatever the case may be, that money being used, Mr. Chairman, to fund other functions or other activities inside the department such as travel or other contracted services or other expenses as they’re called, I’m just wondering, through you, Mr. Chairman, in FMBS when there’s vacant positions do they use the funded positions for other activities inside that department? Thank...

Debates of March 19, 2004 , (day 4)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess another question I’d have is how are travel budgets arrived at in your department and in other departments? In the formula that I found consistent through the various departments was you take the number of employees and multiply it by $10,000 and then you arrive at a travel budget. Is that the case? Maybe the Minister can let me know how it is they arrive at a budget because I don’t think there is a budget. That’s what I’m getting at, Mr. Chairman.

Debates of March 19, 2004 , (day 4)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks to the Minister for answering that question. Thank you.

Debates of March 19, 2004 , (day 4)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My comments are similar to the ones Ms. Lee had. We spoke about this when we went through this a few weeks back, but I will bring it up again in this setting. Can we ask the Minister to go department by department and provide this committee with some information on how many employees the government has in terms of HR function in each department, and what it costs this government and each department to deliver that function? I would like to get a handle on that in terms of what the numbers are and what it is costing the way we are operating today. I do agree that I...