Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am in receipt of a return to written question asked by Mr. Hawkins on February 12, 2014, to the Honourable J. Michael Miltenberger, Minister of Finance, regarding human resource funding transfers and reallocations.
The information the Member is seeking is not available and cannot be provided. There is also the concern of dedicating scarce human and financial resources in order to comb through excessive amounts of data going back 10 fiscal years on what is, for all intents and purposes, a subjective exercise, trying to guess why managers of years past made certain staffing decisions. None of our systems, past or present, track the type of information the Member is requesting.
The Financial Administration Act gives the deputy minister for the respective department the ability to make interactivity transfer as a management tool. For interactivity transfers over $250,000, I table a report during every session in my role as Minister of Finance. The information contained in the reports may alleviate some of the Member’s concerns. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
