Jane Groenewegen

Agreed. Thank you. Page 1-27, Legislative Assembly, activity summary, statutory officers, operations expenditure summary, $1.603 million.

Thank you. Please proceed.

Mr. Menicoche.

Agreed. Thank you. Moving on to page 1-23, Legislative Assembly, activity summary, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, operations expenditure summary, $626,000.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Tabled Document 9-17(4), NWT Main Estimates, 2013-2014, and would like to report progress with four motions being adopted, and that consideration of Tabled Document 9-17(4) is concluded, and that the House concur in those estimates, and that an appropriation bill to be based thereon be introduced without delay. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Has the government and has the Minister ever contemplated an outside review of positions by department to ensure that we are not overstaffed in various departments? Thank you.

Okay. If I can direct your attention back, please, to the summary page for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Page 13-7, Environment and Natural Resources, department summary, operations expenditure summary, $71.565 million.

Thank you. Legislative Assembly, information item, Office of the Speaker, active positions.

Question is being called.

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Mr. Abernethy, in his fulsome answer, actually went on to some of the other questions I was going to ask, like when was the last time we actually identified obsolete positions within the public service. I’m not just thinking about those that are vacant. There may be some that are occupied that are obsolete, if that may be possible. The Minister is saying that it is the deputy minister’s role. From what we see of deputy ministers around here, they are pretty busy people. Deputy ministers are pretty busy folks. I’d like to ask if there is any other way of monitoring this to ensure that everybody...