Michael Miltenberger

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Great Slave, that Bill 1, An Act to Amend the Borrowing Authorization Act, be read for the third time.

No, no comment there. Thank you.

Madam Chair, we will commit to take a look at making sure we are updated in terms of the work we have done and if there is some full-cost accounting factors that we haven’t quantified. But it comes down to, at this particular juncture, just significant ongoing cost to bring them into the system that is prohibiting us from moving forward because of our fiscal circumstance. Thank you.

Yes, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. There is a very small number, as the Minister indicated, of patients making use of this service, and I’m not in a position to have any idea of the circumstance of the patients. Given the small number, we want to be very careful about any kind of discussion of that nature, but I will ask the Minister if he has any idea in terms of this blood service cost, whether we can project further down the road in the coming years so it’s not a supp but is built into the budget. It would tie into the condition of the patients, for the longevity of the patients and those types of...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I live and work for the day as Finance Minister where we’ll have a session in this House and Ms. Bisaro will say we’ve done a good job on budgeting and that we hit an acceptable range of budgets so that we’ll know that we’ve almost approached as close to perfection probably as we’ll ever get. But in the meantime, what we have here are legitimate requests. The Legislature of course can say no. That is our legal right, but we believe we’ve demonstrated very clearly the need.

I think all the Members that have been through the facilities, and we’ve all been through...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I’ll ask Mr. Aumond to give you the specific date where the request was made for those plans.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I have with me from Finance, Mr. Mike Aumond; and Mr. Sandy Kalgutkar, deputy secretary to the Financial Management Board Secretariat.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I apologize if that information never got there. We were working over the weekend and fired this in to your folks. It’s only Monday and we’ve been in the House and in meetings ever since everybody convened Monday. We did send this in as soon as we had it ready.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I am here to present Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2011-2012. This document outlines an increase of $14.817 million in operations expenditures for the 2011-2012 fiscal year.

The major items included in the supplementary estimates are:

$3.335 million for the Department of Health and Social Services to provide contribution funding to the Beaufort-Delta Health and Social Services Authority and the Stanton Territorial Health Authority for extraordinary costs that contributed to the accumulated deficits in these authorities. This amount will be...