Jane Groenewegen

Just in terms of the RFP I’d like to know if the RFP has already been drafted and the terms of the RFP. I would like to know if any points will be awarded for a building that would be modern in terms of energy efficiencies.

The dollar value that’s being proposed in the capital budget for this consolidated primary care clinic, is that just for leasehold improvements to another leased space?

Does the Minister or the deputy minister anticipate that there’s going to be a negotiated contract for the construction of this building?

Mr. Chairman, I could spend some time and camp on that subject, but I won’t. The consolidated primary care clinic for Yellowknife, the work to commence in ’09–10…. Actually, I think there is already some prior spending on that, but the completion of it in ’09–10. Could the Minister please describe for me the intent? Just give a description of this project.

So this is something that came up as a need as a result of a structural failure in a different Inuvik building that was being leased then, and that’s what brought this about. How many square feet were being leased versus how much is being created now in the government’s inventory here for lease?

I’d like to thank the Minister for that non-editorialized answer. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Can we get some more information on the proposed facility? Oh, we’re on Public Works now, right? Okay; good. The proposed facility for Inuvik for multi-use facility and records: what’s the use of that building going to be?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This, by anybody’s standards, sounds like a lot of money: $7 million. I was wondering if the Minister could tell us how our expenditures on information technology capital compares with other jurisdictions of a similar size. Even to people out there in the public, even to us in here, this sounds like a lot of money. Are we over resourced when it comes to information technology services and infrastructure?

The Legislative Assembly reports to Gov Ops. Where is the forum to ask questions about capital for the Legislative Assembly?

The combined storage building and the office building is 47,000 square feet. The rationale I’m hearing for it is that the space that some of the government offices are in right now is old. I want to know more about what that entails, because in my community not government employees but students are in a building that’s old, and I can’t even get air quality reports, although I’ve asked for them repeatedly. I can’t get the asbestos report for that school, although I’ve asked for it repeatedly. PWS has not provided that.

To hear about an investment of this type for a building of this size because...