David Ramsay

I’d like to ask the Premier who was on the review team reviewing those RFPs.

On a construction infrastructure project like the Deh Cho Bridge, I’m just wondering, in terms of management, construction management, corporate management, things like that, typically what would a project like that encounter in terms of a percentage of cost. If we’re looking at close to $30 million on construction management, construction overhead, to me that number seems a little bit inflated and it’s close to 15 percent of the total project costs. I’m just wondering, is that industry norm or standard or how do we explain that. Thank you.

I want to thank the Minister for that. That’s probably the case so I’ll have some more questions as we go here. Thank you.

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Thanks, Mr. Chairman. I just had a question under 2-29 again, sorry, if we could return there.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Ms. Melhorn.

I guess, if the committee will allow me to ask this question on this page, maybe if the Minister could just speak to the… I didn’t hear him say it, but overall, the department, the senior management or the department, has there been any improvement there with the number of aboriginal employees in senior management inside of the department? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Mr. Bromley. We’re on page 5-8, Finance, department summary, information item, infrastructure investment summary.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That was the question I had on devolution negotiations, but I have another question on NGO stabilization, the $350,000. I would be the first to say that we as a government should be lending as much support to NGOs across the Territory as we possibly can. We have to make sure that the NGOs have the capacity to manage their affairs effectively and to make sure they are run effectively, and I wouldn’t want to see us just taking the $350,000 and scattering it around. I think we have to come up with a game plan. I think we need to find out which organizations need the help...

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