Kevin O'Reilly

Yes, thanks Mr. Chair. I’m not sure how to approach this because I’ve asked, and now this will be third time I’ve asked for information to be compiled about staffing changes that are presented in the budget and we still don’t have it. We’ve just finished the Housing Corp. In any event, I’ve asked twice now different Ministers, the Finance Minister, the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, if we could get this information consolidated. I believe it’s impeding my ability as an MLA to be able to review the budget. I asked over 10 days ago now, I believe, for this information, I still...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. No more questions.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the explanation. How much of that $2.2 million is actual federal funding? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

I think I’ll pass for now, Mr. Chair, because I’ve got some other things I’d like to explore on this page. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Today we haven’t had the pleasure of hearing from the Minister of Health and Social Services, so I have a couple of questions for him. I understand that from previous discussions we’ve had here in the House that there’s a couple of midwifery consultants that have been hired to do some work to help design the territorial system. Can the Minister tell us when the contracts for those two individuals finish? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

No thanks, Mr. Chair, and I appreciate the commitment of the Minister to follow up with NFTI and try to find a way to streamline or improve support for agriculture. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. There’s some significant changes in the staffing levels. Can the Minister or staff explain generally what’s going on and how many of those positions are vacant? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I’m looking at the line, minor repairs, under rental housing programs. The figures here jump around quite a bit: 2014-15 it was over $7.4 million, next year is $1.7million in 2015-16, and then in 2016-17 is $2.2 million. Why are these figures jumping all over the place? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the answer. I think I understand much better now what the funding’s actually used for. I just want to move on to the Mining Incentive Program. Do we actually have any way to measure how effective this money has been in say the discovery of new properties? Have any of the properties that are being explored as a result of this program? Have any of them actually gone into production? How do we evaluate the effectiveness of the investment that’s made here? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. These funding arrangements, they’re finished. I guess, in particular, I was curious about the Canol Trail work. Has that actually been completed? Thanks, Mr. Chair.