Floyd Roland

Mr. Chairman, with me today is Lew Voytilla, secretary to the FMB.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the department has been working on redoing how it uses its space within this city. There were a number of clinics that were private that were taken into the Department of Health and Social Services so that they could better coordinate and use the services of the doctors in a more efficient manner. That started the work that is going on and since then, as well, trying to increase the amount of space available so more patients can be seen.

Working with the department and Yellowknife Health and Social Services they came up with this arrangement and the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the intent is to have a program or a process in every community. When this was rolled out, it was discussed that the potential was initially to get the depots up and running and have the smaller communities look at ways that they may be able to stockpile or keep the recycling material until they could either get it into the other communities' depots by barge or by ice roads. That was discussed. This is the initial plan to get it up and running and they are hoping that in the future that they will be able to establish them in almost every community....

Yes, Mr. Chairman. I am here to introduce Bill 1, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 1, 2005-2006. This bill requests authority for additional appropriations of $21.342 million for operations expenditures and $32.002 million for capital investment expenditures in the 2005-06 fiscal year.

Major items included in this request for operations expenditures are as follows:

$16.1 million for the Department of Executive, Financial Management Board Secretariat, for the resources associated with the human resource amalgamation. Of this amount, $14.8 million was transferred from other departments;

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the $400,000 will be contributed by the health authority. It comes out of a surplus that they have in their budget, and our retention policy with surplus is that the health board gets to keep 50 percent of it and the rest gets returned to us. So out of their surplus they are going to pay for the extra portion. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the rules are as he’s read them and as I’ve worked with where transfer has occurred and adjustment has happened. What is happening at this point now is we’re requesting that transfer to happen and that adjustment to be made. The transfer has not happened at this point, adjustment has not happened at this point, the money is still identified under the Territorial Treatment Centre for Yellowknife, but changes to the plan are being brought forward now for the money to be changed to a different project. It’s the Territorial Treatment Centre, but in a...

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Thebacha, that Bill 1, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 1, 2005-2006, be read for the first time. Thank you, Madam Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the services that Ms. Lee has talked about as available here in Yellowknife are territorial services. So they are of the nature that is provided to all residents of the Territories, whether other communities have to travel here to see those specialists. That is a common occurrence within the Northwest Territories. The benefit of having the largest centre is that more services are available here and other residents from across the Territories have to travel here. So it’s a practice that is already done and exercised on a daily basis throughout the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I think we just have to look back a couple of years at an incident that is very similar in the nature of what happened and it did, as well, cause an uproar in a number of other communities. When the young offenders’ facilities were moved from their existing location, they were identified in the capital plan and were to be possibly rebuilt in Hay River. At that point a decision was made by the department to proceed on a different lateral and saw the facilities being split and moved to other locations. The young offenders ended up being part of the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Finally we agree. The scope in the project has changed and that is why we are coming back to this House for approval for that change. Up until that approval happens, the authority given to the Assembly remains with that project. The reason we're coming back now is because a request has been made and we've agreed at the first stage, but we need the authority of the Assembly to move beyond this next stage. If the Assembly does not approve of it, then the project, as the department is trying to put in place now, will not proceed until it receives approval of this...