Kevin O'Reilly

Frame Lake

Statements in Debates

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Thanks, Madam Chair. I think this is where the integrated case management program is found, but there's no line item; there's no nothing. It's hard to know what expenditures there are on the program. Can I get some detail about that and whether the budget is increasing, decreasing? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Thanks for that. Yeah, I'm looking at this. It's clearly a reduction. That's not the way it's classified, though, by the Financial Management Board. I believe this is classified as an FMB approved adjustment. Can the Minister confirm that, yes or no? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Thanks, Madam Chair. And not knowing enough about the system and how it works and whether statistics are tracked or not, I'm happy to get whatever the Minister can provide and then we'll go from there. Thanks.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Thanks, Madam Chair. No, I appreciate the Minister's commitment to make that information public, and I'm one of the Members that actually pushed for a rationalization of resources here because there's just very little, if any, interest whatsoever in oil and gas resources in the Northwest Territories. So why continue to spend money on managing them when there's no activity taking place. So I understand and pushed for that work to be done.

So when the money is cut, where does it go? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Yeah, okay, thanks, Madam Chair, and thanks to the Minister for that. So can the Minister just not having been a postsecondary education or a student for many years, what is the process of somebody who needs or wants to get an exception or extra consideration? Do they write to their, you know, their SFA officer and get some sort of waiver, or how does that process actually work? And, yeah, thanks, Madam Chair.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Thanks, Madam Chair. So there's a $700,000 decrease in the budget here for OROGO and two staff are being cut I guess, if I look at page 294. Can I get an explanation as to what's happened here? Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Thanks, Madam Chair. And thanks to the Minister for that. As I understand it, students have sort of a period of time in which they are eligible once they start a program. Is the Minister willing to look at providing some flexibility in terms of eligibility for students if they lost a year or two during COVID? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Thanks, Madam Chair. So what are we doing to try to increase access to justice through legal aid services? What changes, if any, are being made in terms of this budget? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Merci, Madam la Presidente. Committee wishes to consider Tabled Document 56119(2): Main Estimates 20222023, with Education, Culture and Employment and Justice. Mahsi, Madam Chair.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, I'm just quickly trying to troll through my own emails to see if I got a heads up about this. But if the Minister or the staff want to send that again, I'd be happy to put it on my own Facebook page and YK Facebook page and so on, and I'm sure others would be as well. So it would be great to get those in place and operating. I don't think I have any other questions about this section, Madam Chair. Thank you.