Kevin O'Reilly

Is the Minister aware of all of these issues, and is that the sort of thing that's going to be encompassed in the discussion to help set up this Mineral Administration Registry System? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister for that. The August renewal of the CanadaNWT Early Learning and Child Care Agreement provided a onetime earmarked $2.5 million to support development of our early child care work force, childhood care work force. I want to ask the Minister whether he can tell us if that money's actually rolling out now and how many child care workers have been trained or have their skills upgraded? Merci, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I don't want to rehash that. I asked what I thought was a simple question, Madam Chair. Why was the project sped up? Can I have someone please answer that question. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I did ask some questions earlier in this sitting about as I -- well, okay. I'll just back up. We set up this ISS -- I'm not even going to get the name right, information shared services something or other, within Department of Finance to bring together all the computer IT folks so that there -- in all of those functions and staff were taken out of departments. There was 70 people moved as I remember into Department of Finance to do this work. And I just find this quite remarkable now that we're actually starting to dismantle that and take off this piece back to the...

Merci, Monsieur le President. My statement dealt with the oftenpromised federal territorial agreement to bring affordable child care to all parents in the NWT. The ECE Minister is quoted in the media as saying in some media saying "we'll have this agreement by the end of the calendar year."

But I'd like the Minister to tell us the number of child care spaces the agreement will support and at what cost per day. Merci, Mr. Speaker.

Thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, I was looking for this information, actually, last night. I think it's probably in the neighbourhood of 8 or $10 million a year. Does that ballpark figure sound correct? And just a yes or no would be very helpful. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. So when do we actually expect to have some kind of an agreement with the community to actually build a new school? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Merci, Monsieur le President.

Committee decided to seek proposals from resource economic consultants to provide an independent opinion on the following questions:

Is the GNWT maximizing benefits from resource extraction?

Does the GNWT fiscal and regulatory structure maximize value for Northwest Territories residents and future generations?

Is the proposed approach by the GNWT to review this fiscal and regulatory regime comprehensive?

Will the proposed approach accurately assess whether the benefits of resource wealth are being maximized for the GNWT, NWT residents, and future generations?

The...

My time is being gobbled up. I don't want to go to a third person to ask what I thought was a relatively simple question. So I'm going to move on.

So it sounds like the completion of the Tlicho AllSeason Road was sped up, that we had to start to incur the debt sooner than we had planned for. Is that the case, and what was the original completion date then? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. So the $740,000 that's been taken out, what was that originally going to be used for, then? Thanks.