Robert Hawkins

Obviously we are running out of time this round, but I wouldn’t mind some details as to medical travel. I would assume that we would have a revenue, if it’s listed here on this page, that points to, for example, third-party insurance coverage. If it isn’t on this particular page, I’m curious as to where it would show up and how much it would be.

To give a specific example, in my view the territorial government shouldn’t be picking up all the costs. Insurance companies should be the first whistle stop on some of these expenses. As far as that goes, whether it’s automobile accidents or, for...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I raised the issue yesterday about direct appointments, and my view is it’s very important to create them in a transparent manner. At no time, of course, did I say I was against direct appointments, but it’s simply based on the transparency of them. In my Member’s statement I certainly spoke about two dozen shared services employees that have been shown the door by this government in its reorg. Now is an opportunity for the Premier to start using his direct appointment authority in an open, transparent, and maybe even a reasonable way.

I would ask the Premier, would he...

It’s under Non-Insured Health Benefits five-year summary of expenses by authority and total revenue recoveries and it’s my understanding it’s actually from the Minister’s office. It’s an internal document. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, in the wisdom of this government, they developed a unit called shared services for financial transactions and procurement in the wake of implementing the new financial system.

When the government announced this initiative, they said it would be a positive benefit that would flow from this model such as the department being able to focus on core business and people will be able to receive high quality and timely services. They also said employees will benefit from a shared service organization by clearly having the career progression path developed for them and they can enjoy...

Maybe just a follow-up on another perspective to Mr. Dolynny’s question. I think the Minister had pointed out we bill and we get paid for it. I guess he’s going to provide some type of spreadsheet information on what’s billed and what’s covered. Can he also include what is billed and refused on this stuff? Thank you very much.

Just changing gears, same kind of concept though. I understand we have a team that does an amazing job at fixing that equipment over at Stanton, that tech crew. I’m not sure what the exact name is and I almost feel embarrassed that I don’t know the name of it, but the tech crew there that works on all the fancy equipment in Stanton certainly provide regional support and they get out to our regions. In essence, do we bill for other regions on that? Do we bill across authorities on that? Who picks up the cost of that? One of the Stanton folks who is a tech, who is an expert in fixing some of...

Thank you. I’m going to say maybe broadly I don’t disagree with the philosophy then that if we don’t make money other jurisdictions don’t make money that, in essence, we’re covering costs, I understand that philosophy and perhaps maybe in the wash it all works out in the bigger picture.

The issue I’m really trying to boil down to here – and I’m going to try to directly put my finger on it – is what type of cost analysis do we look at? For example – I’ll use it by way of example – we sent a physiotherapist to, say, Cambridge Bay and I’m hearing that we’ve covered the costs of the flight to...

So, in essence, out of this $180,000, what would the territorial government be reimbursing through its processes then? It just seems odd to me. I understand why we have to count it as revenue. That’s fine, that’s not the question, but it’s based on how much would we actually be paying through people putting their application in because we agreed to cover their professional fees, which seems a bit of a weird process, but obviously for accounting. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I actually have a question on 8-7. We blew by that page pretty fast. I’m thinking I could probably deal with my questions later on, but I just have some general questions. I’m happy to wait for Members to finish on 8-9.

I’m missing the first part for my first round, which is do we pay it? For example, do we pay doctors’ professional fees? I guess the other thing is, is it affected by vacancies, and if so, what vacancies would this be attributed to? Thank you.