Jane Groenewegen

Mr. Speaker, I will try and be more brief. I’m sorry. It doesn’t seem like there would be much incentive for directors or people in management positions to identify obsolete positions within their organization. Really, I don’t know what incentive there would be to report that because that means less people working for them. That might diminish their role as director. I know that sounds like kind of a sinister conclusion, but what incentive would senior managers have to identify positions that are no longer needed or not busy enough to constitute a full-time job? Thank you.

The motion is carried.

---Carried

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Thank you, Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for whoever wants to answer them. I’m not sure if it would be the Minister of Human Resources or the Premier.

We talk often in this House about the growth in the public service at headquarters. I have talked about my experience on the occasional visit to an office in one of our ivory towers here in Yellowknife where I walk down hallways and through cubicles and try to find somebody that’s a receptionist or somebody that’s in charge. Let’s just say, there are hundreds and hundreds of public servants in Yellowknife here at headquarters.

We talk about...

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. We will be sure now we have all of that on the record. Mr. Menicoche.

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Agreed. Does committee agree that we have concluded consideration of Tabled Document 9-17(4), NWT Main Estimates, 2013-2014?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I would like to rise again in this House to talk about the issue of the doctor shortage in Hay River. When I came to Hay River almost 40 years ago, the hospital and the medical clinic were operated by the Pentecostal Sub-Arctic Mission. As part of their recruitment of staff for the hospital, they also recruited doctors, and many of those doctors made a long-term commitment to Hay River.

Over the years the practice of medicine has changed. It seems gone are the days of a family practitioner hanging up a shingle in a small town and staying there and being on call for...

Great. Thank you. I think the two that were missing was with respect to ITI. I believe that those were not read out, if I am not mistaken. Was that read out? Okay, then which ones were missing? Mr. Miltenberger, if you could start with respect to the departments and just go through them again. I’m sorry; I thought there were two items missing.