Jane Groenewegen

To the motion.

Thank you, Minister Roland. Does committee agree?

Thank you. Wow, I have the floor. Thank you very much. We can’t ask questions. I had my hand up to ask questions when it was still being called as an item on the paper, but I guess we went to the motion instead. Anyway, I have questions that nobody is going to answer, but let me ask them anyway.

If we can have all the details in half an hour, why couldn’t we have it when…I am yelling in my own ear here. Why couldn’t we have had it in the last three days if we could have them in a half an hour? If we only have to wait half an hour to get the answers to the questions, I say we wait for half...

I will call Committee of the Whole back to order. The first item on our agenda this afternoon is Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 2, 2007-2008. At this time, I will ask the Minister of Finance if he will please give his opening comments.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. What I am hearing both Minister Roland and Minister Dent telling us is that there is no report except for the Hackett report which was done in 2005 with respect to the implementation of this new software. There has been no report by the Audit Bureau that would speak to things like the confidentiality breach or things like the protocol that should have been followed by the government when they were implementing these changes to the software. There was no report that talked about that protocol that wasn’t followed before some of these pieces went live, so to speak. I...

Mahsi, Mr. Lafferty. Is committee agreed?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Following along the lines of my colleague, Mr. Ramsay, with respect to the PeopleSoft fiasco, is what I would like to call it just because of all the problems we have had with it and all the money that we have spent, and a system that is still not up and running today, as we speak, properly when you take the leave component module out of it. That is still a deficiency of some fair significance. When I questioned Minister Dent earlier in this sitting in question period about if we would do a report on what has happened so that we would have a sense, as my colleague Mr...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do appreciate the Minister's offer to look into that, because we have been dealing, for some time in Hay River, with the issue of fairness and equity. Although we are an anomaly with our own health board and our own union -- we're different in Hay River -- at the same time, we want to make sure that we are not at a disadvantage when it comes to the professional development, the recruitment, the retention and wage parity, and parity on every level for our health workers in Hay River. So I would like to ask the Minister if he will assure us and that he supports the...

Thank you. That is everything. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. I didn’t hear any questions there. Would the Minister like to respond? Minister Roland.