Floyd Roland

Thank you, Madam Chair. The Member is correct. Every department, as we go through this exercise, will have a similar page of revenues, recoveries and transfer payments. For example, Transportation charges fees for licences and so on. They account for it in their section of the budget and if there are any specific agreements that are dealt with by department by department, that’s where it would be accounted for. That’s why we don’t have the total amount here. At the end of it, it’s all in the consolidated revenue fund and that’s where we come up with the $917 million of revenue. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, as I stated earlier, we continue to monitor the workload and requirements in each of the regions. When that is increased to a sufficient amount, we would look at transfer of positions to ensure that we continue to meet that demand placed on the Financial Management Board Secretariat. As well, in this area, we should make the point that as the Sahtu is developing, a lot of that is a result of the self-government discussions that are ongoing right now in the Beaufort-Delta. The government has been proactive in the sense of preparing the Sahtu after self-government discussions are...

Yes, Madam Chair, I would like to have the witnesses come in. It might be a few minutes before they can make it down here.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the exercise we are going through now, we are trying to meet the next business planning process. So we are hoping to have some initial numbers or information for June and then finalizing things in September as we begin the business plan process. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The breakdown for the operations expense, travel and transportation is $163,000; materials and supplies is $150,000; purchased services is $174,000; contract services is $762,000; fees and payments are $199,000; other expenses are $439,000 and again, that breaks down to the chargeback for the human resources system. Then computer hardware and software for $263,000. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. One of the difficulties of this is that the estimates -- for example 2003-04 main estimates that were provided during the previous year of $51 million and again if you look at 2004-05 proposed main estimates of $57 million -- that is our department working with the federal department to come up with an estimate as to what we will be receiving. They collect our taxes for us and remit them back to us. So that's how we work with them.

What you find in the 2003-04 revised estimates of $57 million, are prior year adjustments. The possibility is there with the 2004-05...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As indicated, that is a transfer to the Housing Corporation. So that amount will show up in the Housing Corporation envelope as they take on the last part of that program that used to exist. So you will see that exact amount show up in the Housing Corporation budget.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Thebacha, that Bill 2, An Act to Amend the Income Tax Act, be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, again, I will commit that we will get the numbers together from all of the departments. We will pool it, we will pull it together and provide that to Members on the HR side. Specifically for our department, for FMBS, we have one human resource person and then we receive services through our pooling in the Executive corporate services division. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I believe there are about 25 units that were transferred over, and they range from a number of communities: Fort Liard; Fort Resolution; Good Hope; Paulatuk; Deline; Tuktoyaktuk; and, Fort McPherson.