David Ramsay

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I want to ask questions today to the Minister of Human Resources. It has been almost two years since the amalgamation of the HR departments. It is getting close to two years. I don’t see any improvement in the area of client service, Mr. Speaker. In June, I questioned the Minister in regard to the service levels. It is not good enough that employees or the public call various persons at HR and get three or four different stories about where their files are, what they can access, and what they can’t access. Questions go unanswered. E-mails go...

Does committee agree that consideration of Bill 14 has now been considered?

Clause 3.

Thank you, committee. The vote was two in favour and 14 against. The motion is defeated.

---Defeated

Thank you, committee. We will go back to the main clauses of the bill. Bill 14, An Act to Amend the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act, No. 2. Clause 1.

Question has been called. All those in favour? Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Next on the list I've got Mr. Hawkins. To the amendment, Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to say to the Member for Monfwi, I have a great deal of respect and admiration for the job that he's done in the last while, trying to get an additional seat for his riding in Behchoko, and I have a great deal of respect, as well, for the leadership in the Monfwi riding and the Tlicho people. However, Madam Chair, I regret that I will not be able to support this amendment because I, too, have a constituency to represent in the city of Yellowknife and without another seat for Yellowknife, I cannot support any additional seats outside of Yellowknife, Madam Chair...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Given what I laid out for the Minister in terms of nurses seeking employment and the staffing issues at the various health centres across the Northwest Territories, I am wondering if the Minister could give some consideration to, in fact, having a special team assigned to the recruitment and retention of health care professionals here in the Northwest Territories, because, in my mind, the current Human Resources department just isn’t fitting the bill, Mr. Speaker. Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Bill 14, An Act to Amend the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act, No. 2, and would like to report that Bill 14 is ready for third reading. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have a propensity for standing up in this House and questioning the government in regard to concerns my constituents are raising like the honourable Minister had when he was on this side of the House. I just wanted to point that out for the record, Mr. Speaker. I would like to ask the Minister what performance measures or indicators does the Minister employ when he is trying to gauge whether, in fact, service levels are improving in the Human Resources department. I would like to ask him that specific question. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mahsi.