Caroline Wawzonek

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the fiscal policy review was something that is an internal policy looking at a way of evaluating what we do as a government and how we manage our budgets, how we design our budgets. It was completed by the fiscal policy division as the primary lead within the Department of Finance but also with input from some of the other departments that look at this type of work and that do this type of work, such as the comptroller general's office, the management board secretariat. We certainly did look at counterparts across other governments to see what they might do...

Thank you, Madam Chair. So it is a federal fund. I can't necessarily speak to the details of the federal fund. But for the purposes here, it is supporting the nursing call bells in the Deh Cho Region and as well as in Avens Seniors. So in Avens Senior Home, it's to provide for oxygen concentrators, shower shares, patient lifts, medication carts, fridges, infection prevention and control. So, you know and that's in relation to, again, a longterm care facility. And in the Deh Cho region, it's related to nursing call bells, again in relation to longterm care facilities. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. So to clarify, we'll provide the copy of the survey results confidentially to MLAs but I would also say we'll put something together that we could put together with the public information that is coming as a result of commitments. I know it does get raised in the House with respect to IT projects and what's happening with them. And there are you know, it takes a bit of time for a new team to come together, and I know there's been some projects, Mineral Resources Act being one, that wind up going back to a department function. So some understanding as to the benefits of...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, on my left I have Bill MacKay, who is the deputy minister of Finance. And on my right Kristal Melanson, director of management board secretariat.

Madam Chair, Ms. Melanson has a brief description. I propose she provide it.

Thank you, Madam Chair. There was quite a number of comments made, Madam Chair. I was hoping I might have an opportunity to respond to some of them?

Thank you, Madam Chair. Not as of yet. This is only the first sort of well, this will be the first full Assembly where ISSS has been in existence. So I don't know that and with the two years that were somewhat lost to COVID, I don't know that we would have been in a position at this point. But certainly the Department of Finance, including ISSS, has been part of the government renewal process and is live to the fact that we're shifting towards a more evaluative process. So I'll certainly take note of the Member's comments and can report back to the department and see where and when we would...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I am here to present Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 3, 20222023. These supplementary estimates propose a total increase of $24.044 million, comprised of the following items:

$27.75 million to provide funding for the Mackenzie Valley Fibre Link Project;

$205,000 to increase the total project budget for the Land Tenure Optimization System; and,

A decrease of $4.886 million to adjust infrastructure project cash flows to realign the appropriations with the anticipated project schedules.

These estimates also propose the supplementary appropriations...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Estimating or projecting $4 million at this point.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I certainly can sorry, yes, so that's the difference there. That, Madam Chair, was positionally well, a couple of things, Madam Chair. There were some changes in terms of compensation and benefits back at the time. There was unfunded positions and underfunded positions that have been that have adjusted over time. And then also, Madam Chair, there was an unfunded donation this is where there's a donation that was made, $150,000 to United Way, to deal or to support flood relief came out of there as well. Thank you, Madam Chair.