Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It’s a bit of an issue. Communities like Trout Lake have a ramp for the disabled, but it’s like gravel so it’s quite a lot of work to get somebody up a gravel ramp. Those are issues to look at. As well, there is a building that we actually lease in Fort Simpson where stairs are the only way to get up to the second floor and that’s just not acceptable in this day and age. So those are the types of issues that I bring to the Minister’s attention. Will he conduct an assessment of all the buildings we do have there? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as our process works, under forced growth those that do end up into category one would have the ability through their processes and negotiations and substantiation put in through their appropriate department's requests for forced growth and that would be considered through the normal budgetary process. One of the other organizations, for example, is the housing authorities. Those have been put into the category one area. We do have some information here, and it would take a bit of work to go through it to pull out all the specific ones, but it would be...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the area we’re looking at here and the work that’s required, as Minister Miltenberger stated, comes into the area where 11 projects were looked at for a one-time fund. This was one of them. I understand where the Member comes from about the concern about delivery of health care services and competing projects and getting, I guess making the cut as to whether it proceeds or not. This area here, just to be clear so individuals out there don’t feel like we’re creating a two-tier system, this does not create a different level of service. Anybody needing...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We suspect the department will be looking into that area. The source of contamination in this old site was due to fuel oil, I believe. I believe the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs has more detail to that area. Thank you

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Joining me today is the secretary to the Financial Management Board, Mr. Lew Voytilla.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, it is another property. What we have done in the past as a government when we’ve entered into facilities and leased them, if we need to make changes in the structure or office space, or requirement for space, we would take that on and pay for those changes. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, as laid out, the process we fall under when it comes to a natural disaster or a disaster in this area where a flood had occurred, the policy and the arrangement of the federal government is that they would cover 85 percent of the cost. Beyond that, normally, again, a person’s own household insurance there, that area we would expect would cover the rest of the loss in that area. In this case, as we were informed at the time and made the decision to support the initiative to cover the rest of the cost, is that this case would not have done us any positiveness...

I am pleased to introduce Bill 19, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 3, 2005-2006. This bill requests authority for additional appropriations of $31.994 million for operations expenditures and $1.189 million for capital investment expenditures in the 2005-2006 fiscal year.

The request for operations expenditures, net of offsetting revenues, exceeds the supplementary reserve reported in the 2006-2007 Main Estimates by $5 million. However, the GNWT will still remain within the guidelines set by the fiscal responsibility policy for the 2005-2006 fiscal year.

Major items included in this...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the Minister of Health and Social Services may be able to provide more of that background as to the specific causes, or at least the best estimate under the department’s case, the causes for these type of increases. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Voytilla can provide that level of detail. Thank you.