Debates of December 13, 2011 (day 7)

Date
December
13
2011
Session
17th Assembly, 1st Session
Day
7
Speaker
Members Present
Hon. Glen Abernethy, Hon. Tom Beaulieu, Ms. Bisaro, Mr. Blake, Mr. Bouchard, Mr. Bromley, Mr. Dolynny, Mrs. Groenewegen, Mr. Hawkins, Hon. Jackie Jacobson, Hon. Jackson Lafferty, Hon. Bob McLeod, Hon. Robert McLeod, Hon. Michael Miltenberger, Mr. Moses, Mr. Nadli, Hon. David Ramsay, Mr. Yakeleya
Topics
Statements

Agreed.

Does committee agree that this concludes consideration of the Department of Finance?

Agreed.

Mr. Miltenberger, I would like to thank you and thank your witnesses for today. I would like to ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses out of the Chamber.

I would ask if the Speaker would like to call his witnesses to the witness table.

Does committee agree?

Agreed.

Thank you very much. I would ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses into the Chamber. I will ask the Members if they would like to turn to section 1-2 in their capital budgets.

I would like to thank Mr. Speaker. Would you like to introduce your witnesses for the Chamber?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have Tim Mercer, Clerk of the Legislative Assembly; and I have Mr. Darrin Ouellette, director of corporate services.

Thank you, Speaker Jacobson. General comments on the department’s capital budget?

Detail.

Detail. Thank you. We will defer the department summary on page 1-2 and we will review the activities by activity summary on page 1-4. Legislative Assembly, activity summary, Office of the Clerk, infrastructure investment summary, total infrastructure investment summary, $640,000.

Agreed.

Thank you. We will turn to 1-2, Legislative Assembly, department summary, infrastructure investment summary, total infrastructure investment summary, $640,000.

Agreed.

Does committee agree that consideration of the Legislative Assembly is concluded?

Agreed.

Thank you. I would like to thank the committee. I would like to thank Mr. Speaker and his witnesses. If the Sergeant-at-Arms could please escort the witnesses out of the Chamber. Thank you.

I would like to call upon Ms. Bisaro.

COMMITTEE MOTION 1-17(1): CONCURRENCE OF TABLED DOCUMENT 2-17(1), NORTHWEST TERRITORIES CAPITAL ESTIMATES 2012-2013, CARRIED

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move that consideration of Tabled Document 2-17(1), Northwest Territories Capital Estimates 2012-2013, be now concluded and that Tabled Document 2-17(1) be reported and recommended as ready for further consideration in formal session through the form of an appropriation bill. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. The motion is in order. To the motion.

Question.

---Carried

Thank you. I will now rise and report progress.

Report of Committee of the Whole

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Tabled Document 2-17(1), Northwest Territories Capital Estimates 2012-2013, and would like to report that consideration of Tabled Document 2-17(1) is concluded, that the House concurs with those estimates and that an appropriation bill based thereon be introduced without delay. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.

Speaker: MR. SPEAKER

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Do I have a seconder? The honourable Member for Sahtu, Mr. Yakeleya.

---Carried

Orders of the Day

Speaker: Mr. Mercer

Mr. Speaker, there will be a meeting of the Standing Committee on Priorities and Planning at 7:30 a.m. in Committee Room A tomorrow morning.

Orders of the day for Wednesday, December 14, 2011, at 1:30 p.m.:

Prayer

Ministers’ Statements

Members’ Statements

Returns to Oral Questions

Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery

Acknowledgements

Oral Questions

Written Questions

Returns to Written Questions

Replies to Opening Address

Petitions

Reports of Standing and Special Committees

Reports of Committees on the Review of Bills

Tabling of Documents

Notices of Motion

Notices of Motion for First Reading of Bills

Motions

Motion 19-17(1), Completion of an Anti-Poverty Strategy

First Reading of Bills

Second Reading of Bills

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters

Report of Committee of the Whole

Third Reading of Bills

Orders of the Day

Speaker: MR. SPEAKER

Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Accordingly, this House stands adjourned until Wednesday, December 14, 2011, at 1:30 p.m.

---ADJOURNMENT

The House adjourned at 5:28 p.m.