Wendy Bisaro

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Abernethy.

Thank you, committee. Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Minister Abernethy. Next on my list is Mr. Yakeleya.

Mr. Abernethy, would you care to rephrase?

Alright, committee. We’ll come back to order, please. Yesterday we ended Committee of the Whole and we did not conclude general comments. I would like to ask whether there are any further general comments on the budget. Seeing none, is committee agreed we are concluded general comments?

Thank you, committee. Page 3-18, Human Resources, information item, Human Resource Strategy and Policy, active positions. Any questions?

Thank you, committee. Work performed on behalf of others has no amounts. We will return to the department summary on page 3-7. Human Resources, department summary, operations expenditure summary, $42.099 million. Are we agreed?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a number of issues and comments in no particular order. The first one has to do with, and I think it’s referenced in the Minister’s opening remarks, and that’s the number of senior managers that are nearing retirement. This was something I think we talked about last year during business plans. I’d like to know from the Minister where the department is in assisting other departments in planning for the loss of our senior managers and that corporate knowledge that is going with them. I’m curious to know what percentage of our senior managers is going to be lost to...

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Mr. Moses, nothing further? Page 3-25, Human Resources, activity summary, corporate human resources, operations expenditure summary, $9.163 million. Mr. Hawkins.

I want to thank the Minister, although I’m not quite sure I appreciate his response. However, I’ll look at Hansard tomorrow and check it out.

One of the other concerns that I have with nurse practitioners is the way that we fund them, and my understanding is that we have about nine nurse practitioners that we as a government are funding. I’d like to ask the Minister how these nine NPs are funded. Are they all funded from the base funding from the department or are some of them funded by federal funding? Thank you.