Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Yellowknife South, that Bill 1, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 4, 2005-2006, be read for the third time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Member has raised a significant point. In operations, the Tlicho Government, as he stated, has difficulty from time to time dealing with the daily changing plans of individuals and our elders in trying to accommodate those.

On a larger scale, the Government of the Northwest Territories and our system has even greater difficulty making those small changes. That is why we need to try to arrange a plan that would work for both parties and is a little more difficult than initially stated. One of the other areas we could look at is possibly our contract...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the space occupied by the GNWT users is relatively the same, approximately 320 square metres less would be what we would look at for our current requirement. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, ultimately we need to find space. Spaces where we’re occupied at this time we would lose the opportunity to use that space. Going out for a tender at this time we still wouldn’t have a building in place for more than a year to complete what’s required. I suggest we’d be lucky to get it completed and people moved in in two years if we were to pull something off the shelf and just say we need so much square footage office space. There is some office space, there’s a learning centre. So there’s different types of spaces here that are required, but...

Thank you, Madam Chair. With me today I have the secretary to the FMB, Mr. Mark Cleveland. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This facility has been looked at for a number of years as to what options could be undertaken to either keep the facility, renovate the facility or replace the facility complete. In our estimates in 2004 for the renovation, it was identified as $12 million. For replacement of the new facility, it was an estimate in 2004, for the same size, was approximately $19 million. The fact is there has been discussion back and forth between Education, Culture and Employment, the community, and options were sought from Public Works. The work that was done and what options may be...

Madam Chair, at this time, the request is for the position so that the Housing Corporation can deal with a majority of land situations or problems they found in communities. They have a backlog of files, to date, that they need to deal with. For example, there are about 600 parcels out there that the Housing Corporation needs to deal with, never mind the ones going ahead. At this point, it's requested to proceed. They are not term positions. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the option of doing nothing would not be the responsible option of government because the fire marshal would, based on the discussions and the requirements that we need to do to keep this facility open for a couple of years until we get to a new facility would be, for example, they require having a plan in place to either bring the building up to code or to vacate the building. The fire marshal at any point here can step in if they feel the minimum upgrades don’t begin ASAP, they may be directed to vacate the building. Closing the building has also been...

Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to introduce Bill 1, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 4, 2005-2006. This bill requests authority for additional appropriations of $850,000 for operations expenditures for departmental over-expenditures in the 2005-2006 fiscal year.

The request is being made to comply with the authorization process for over-expenditures of appropriations as provided for in the Financial Administration Act. Details of the over-expenditures are as follows:

$620,000 for the Department of Justice, which represents the over-expenditure resulting from higher than anticipated costs in...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, we've been told on a number of occasions, do it from within in-house. We get told to go out to the private sector. So we try to accommodate as much as we can on both sides of the scale. I just believe no matter how much homework we do, it's not going to be enough for the Member.

The fact is, we do have people who monitor our assets, our lease arrangements. But the fact is also, we weren't counting on one of our leased facilities that houses four departments to be shut down because of structural reasons, and spread the rest of the departments over a...