David Ramsay

Thank you, Minister Roland. Welcome back. Committee, we are dealing with Bill 10, Forgiveness of Debts Act, 2007-2008. As I mentioned earlier, we are going to defer consideration of the clauses and deal with the schedule first. Before we go there, we will go to general comments. Does anybody have any general comments on the bill? No general comments. We will go clause by clause, but, as I mentioned, we will deal with the schedule first and the schedule begins on page 3. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, committee. On to page 6, Health and Social Services, operations expenditures, not previously authorized, directorate, $3.091 million. Mr. Braden.

Thank you, Minister Roland. I would now like to ask the chairperson of the committee that reviewed the bill, Accountability and Oversight, Mr. Lafferty.

Clause 2.

Clause 7.

Does committee agree?

Thank you. Total Financial Management Board Secretariat, $10.395 million.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I find it really hard to believe how it could take a year to do a report like this. From what I understand, the report is not completed to the liking of Stanton. Maybe it says something they don’t want it to say. So what is the real issue and why can’t the Minister today, almost nine months after this was talked about last October, initiated in February, like that’s a long period of time. Why isn’t the report ready to be looked at by Members of this House? Thank you.

And on page 15, a total of $8,017,825.77. Does committee agree?

Clause 5.