Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we should be realistic in the fact that with as many employees over at the Stanton facility, we’ve gone into a process where we do a survey, and it was done through the Bureau of Statistics, that they do a survey with employees there and one out of every five goes into a further in-depth survey and that’s the report we’re working on. We are not playing with that report. In fact, I believe that report will come back and show for the majority of things there’s satisfaction with the work around that facility, the work environment. There are a number of...

Mr. Chairman, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 4, 2006-2007 requests authority for additional appropriations of $13.486 million for operations expenditures for departmental over-expenditures in the 2006-2007 fiscal year.

The requests include:

$10.395 million to increase the accrual for environmental liabilities related to the estimated costs to remediate NWT contaminated sites that are the responsibility of the GNWT, pursuant to Public Sector Accounting Board requirements; and

$3.091 million for over-expenditures in the Department of Health and Social Services related to higher than...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, that’s another area we’ve been working on, is going to southern universities and colleges to attract the new graduate nurses to the Northwest Territories. I’d have to check on what sort of incentives we have. We know for the Northwest Territories we have one of the best systems in place through our Student Financial Assistance Program, as well as what we’ve done through the Community Health Nurse Development Program, or the CHN Program as we call it, and trying to take our nurse graduates right out of their courses and give them additional education...

Yes, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, to my right is the secretary to the FMB, Mr. Mark Cleveland; and to my left is Louise Lavoie, assistant comptroller general.

Mr. Chairman, I am here to introduce Bill 9, Write-off of Debts Act, 2007-2008. This bill authorizes the write-off of the debts listed in the scheduled to the act.

Pursuant to section 24 of the Financial Administration Act, Legislative Assembly approval is required for the write-off of government assets or debts exceeding $20,000.

Pursuant to section 82 of the Financial Administration Act, the write-off of debts owed to a public agency exceeding $20,000 and the write-off of debts owed to the Workers' Compensation Board exceeding $50,000 must receive Legislative Assembly approval.

The write-offs...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Mackenzie Delta, that Bill 17, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 4, 2006-2007, be read for the second time.

Mr. Speaker, this bill makes supplementary appropriations for the Government of the Northwest Territories for the 2006-2007 fiscal year. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Nahendeh, that Bill 13, Change of Name Act, be read for the third time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Mackenzie Delta, that Bill 17, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 4, 2006-2007, be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, no, it is not 50 percent of the actual expenditures. For example, out-of-territorial hospitals, the revised estimates we have is in the neighbourhood of $13 million; $13.6 million. Physicians is over $3 million, and a number of other organizations, Metis health benefits over $1 million, extended health benefits is $6.8 million. So there's substantially more being spent already. Thank you.