Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We will do that. Once we have this work done, we will be glad to meet with Members and provide the information and some plans of how we might be able to deal with some of these costs. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I believe it is four-year funding, but it was started in…The negotiations started in 2002-2003. So the projects identified were identified. It was a one-time pot, but spread over a number of years. So it doesn't keep on coming back, that total amount. The total amount was $4.7 million and was transferred over from the federal government, as the Minister of Health and Social Services stated. But it was a one-time fund that was spread over a number of projects. I believe this is the last piece of it, but the Minister of Health may have a little more detail on that...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the area for 2006 Arctic Winter Games trials, what we found, and I have been informed of, was that the regional participation had increased significantly. That is part of the larger portion of the increased cost as well as the high cost of fuel which affects the charters that were used getting athletes to and from the centres where the trials were happening. As well, for example, in the Beaufort-Delta with the closure of the Inuvik high school which has a gymnasium, it would have helped in the delivery of this. It caused some problems where they had to get...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Our employees fall under the same work that’s happening with medical travel and the work that’s being done by the Department of Health and Social Services. So employees that have to go through and receive or, I guess…What would be the term? Referral. Yes. Referral from a doctor down to Stanton or a specialist, that would still follow through the process of Health and Social Services that’s applied. I guess we can say that although it’s underway, we think that is helping the situation a bit. What we find the costs are increasing around is areas of the airline service...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as with all of our properties that we lease, when we originally go out for a lease requesting square footage and the type of environment we're looking for, we would do our initial improvements and upfitting, as we would call them, as departments go in there. Once that is established, it's straightforward and you renew on that basis from year to year. If there are requirements on our behalf for a chance in the use of that facility, then the department responsible would end up paying for those conversion costs or further upgrades for any changes to that...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, this project was undertaken quite some time ago initially. It was constructed over a number of years. It was a negotiated contract with oversight from Public Works and Services. They received substantial completion in May of 2004 where it was turned over to the community of Whati. It was in January of 2005 that the flooring became a problem and progressively worsened to the point of safety concerns were raised.

In our discussions with the contractor about the work and the need to do the right work, there was some initial activity done to try and remedy it....

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, what we’ve done in this area under client services now, we’ve pulled all the resources or people, as well as the program, into one area. We’ve come up with a shortfall in the area of medical travel assistance of just over a million dollars, $1.096 million, as well as dental premiums of $143,000. Other departments had within their ability to fund some of the over-expenditures. If you broke this out between all departments, they had some flexibility there, but within Financial Management Board, after pulling these in we have little room for this type of...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We don’t have that level of detail with me. I’m not sure if the Minister of Health and Social Services has that at his station. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we are attempting to get the recovery of those funds. The holdback that Public Works and Services had on the initial project is not sufficient to cover the amount of work that was required, so there is going to be an attempt made to recover the funds from the contractor that did the work at the time. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as our process works, under forced growth those that do end up into category one would have the ability through their processes and negotiations and substantiation put in through their appropriate department's requests for forced growth and that would be considered through the normal budgetary process. One of the other organizations, for example, is the housing authorities. Those have been put into the category one area. We do have some information here, and it would take a bit of work to go through it to pull out all the specific ones, but it would be...