Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as with so many health care providers and professionals right now that are in short supply and in high demand, there are recruitment and there are retention bonuses that are offered. Are there any such incentives or inducements being offered to other nurse practitioners in the Northwest Territories right now that are not being offered to ours in Hay River? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. In the interests of transparency and unless there is some reason why that report or that correspondence could not be shared with Members, unless there is some personnel reason or some other type of reason, again, for us not to see that correspondence leaves one wondering and asking what is being hidden. What are we hiding? I just want to know about it because this has been a big concern to my constituents. I am not making this up. I am not trying to raise this to cause trouble. I am not on a witch hunt. I think it is a big problem. It is an expensive problem what...

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Next on the list I have Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as I indicated in my Member's statement today, we are very pleased to have two nurse practitioners practising in Hay River. But in a recent meeting with our nurse practitioners, Mr. Speaker, it has come to my attention, our attention, that there is a level of support that is provided to other nurse practitioners in the Northwest Territories. Granted, our nurse practitioners work for the Hay River Health and Social Services Authority, which is under a different regime and under a different union than the rest of the NWT health care system. But having...

Thank you. I will just say this again. I have said it before in this House that we have an obligation as a government to ensure that the most basic things such as confidential information, timely paying of employees for the work that they do for us. HR is a very important function in this government. I think it needs to be done right. At the end of the day, when you look at the issues and the incidents, as you call it, that have occurred in the HR department, somebody is responsible. Maybe some of it is software. Maybe some things are a sequence of events that have transpired which...

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to make sure that the Minister understands why I have a concern with this. I have a concern with this because I specifically asked the Minister of Human Resources in this House if there had been any breach of any confidential information regarding GNWT employees as a result of this new software upgrade going live on the system. Of course, we know at the time, the Minister said absolutely not. I pursued it and subsequently found out that, in fact, there had been. That was conceded or agreed that it happened. Now you are telling me that there is a report...

Thank you, Mr. Roland, for that profound enlightenment. Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just want to follow up where I left off asking questions under general comments of the Minister. I don’t have Hansard in front of me, but the Minister, to summarize where we left off, was talking about a report that was all-encompassing of the chronology and the history of the implementation of this software. However, he made reference to a report and the exact two words he used were “specific incident.” So what I would like to ask the Minister is what specific incident is he referring to? Thank you.

Thank you, Minister Roland. General comments. Mr. Ramsay.