Jane Groenewegen

Hay River South

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Agreed. At this time, I will ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to escort the witnesses to the table.

Minister Roland, would you please introduce your witnesses for the record?

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Thank you, Mr. Roland. There is no committee response to this bill. At this time, I would like to ask the Minister if he would like to bring witnesses into the Chamber. Minister Roland.

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Oh my goodness. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Now if that was not the most difficult thing to understand, that might win an award. Okay, so back to my question. Maybe I’m not calling it the right thing, but with respect to the recent difficulty that everybody is aware of, hello out there in the public service, everybody knows what I’m talking about, the implementation of the upgrade and the changes and the patches and things that were all done pre and post this thing going live and there being problems with it, and the denial by the Minister in this House that there had been a breech of...

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Agreed. We’ll proceed with that after a brief break.

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Thank you, Mr. Chair. So when Mr. Roland just made specific reference to go into the Audit Bureau, then I am to understand that nothing has transpired since 2000 involving the Audit Bureau in a report to look at the issue of a human resource management software. That is my question. Thank you.

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Good afternoon, Members. I will call Committee of the Whole to order. We have several matters before us today. What is the wish of the committee? Mr. Lafferty.

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

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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.

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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...