David Ramsay

Mahsi, Mr. Lafferty. The motion is in order. To the motion.

Mahsi, Mr. Lafferty. The motion is in order. To the motion.

Thank you, committee. Does committee agree that consideration of Committee Report 4-15(6) is concluded?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to ask the Minister which invoices, if the contract hasn’t been completed, which invoices specifically is the government sending to Answerthink or Answerthink has sent to the government that they’re not going to pay? Which ones of those invoices is the government not going to pay and for what work that wasn’t supplied? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, committee. To the motion.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I don’t think a session goes by where I don’t have some questions for the Minister who happens to be responsible for Human Resources. We’ve heard again, during this sitting of the House, some more concerns regarding human resources and the rollout of this new upgrade. The first question I think that really needs to be asked is, I want to know specifically why the contractor, Answerthink, who was responsible for the upgrade, had their contract terminated on the exact date that the upgrade went live and that was July 3rd. I think I need an explanation on...

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Next on the list I have Minister Bell.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to discuss some issues today surrounding the operation and the management of the Department of Human Resources. Recently, there have been two well-known incidents where the Department of Human Resources have had some very serious issues to address. The first, Mr. Speaker, was the breach of PeopleSoft last winter where employees’ private information was available to others on PeopleSoft. This was known to staff of Human Resources. However, they failed to inform the Minister that there was a security breach in the software. This took place for about a month....

Mahsi, Mr. Villeneuve. Next on the list I’ve got Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and I thank the Premier for his comments. I also thank the Members who spoke in favour of the motion that we have before us today. I just wanted to close with saying a few more things.

I know the Premier spoke of making decisions as a territory and being accountable. That’s all fine and good, Mr. Speaker, but at no moment in time were Members of this House, Regular Members, part of the decision-making process to spend the additional $2 million, and that, to me, is the fundamental problem that I have with the bridge project. That was a unilateral decision by Cabinet...