Floyd Roland

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, the Member is talking about the actual pay cheque and the delays. For example, our casual hires would have to wait the two weeks before they get their first cheque. The normal process for GNWT employees, until we made this change, would have been that they have gotten cheques sooner, but it made it very difficult for us to calculate sick time or time away and make those adjustments for overtime and so on, and it further delayed when the season ended. That is the reason why we made those changes. Now I see where the Member is coming from on the...

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, seeing that this is the last day of session, I must say I look forward to traveling back home to Inuvik. It has been some time since I’ve been back home and I especially look forward to taking part in the Samuel Hearne Secondary School graduation ceremonies that are taking place on June 11th, and look forward to taking part with the graduates there and wish them the best, as well.

Of course, I look forward to just the everyday visits I get from the good people of Inuvik. So I’m looking forward to going home and wish everybody here safe journeys back...

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Earlier in a Member’s statement just a few moments ago, Mr. Ramsay had, as I see it, made allegations against me saying I circumvented the rules. Under 23(h) of our rules, I believe that is an infraction. I have listened to some of the Members and their comments and felt that they have pushed the envelope. I feel at this point I have to rise on this point of order. We followed the rules and I tried to explain what had happened. I believe in this House now making that allegation against me is not appropriate. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, the process that we use as a Cabinet and FMB when Ministers would come forward with plans or changes in plans, they would have to come and address their changes to us and seek our approval. In this case, a facility was being considered for a major retrofit or replacement and the estimates that are put into the document, in the budget we vote on, are class D estimates and are still subject to change.

As another facility had become available in the territory and looking at the decentralization aspect of government as well as how we conduct our business...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The reason we initially went back to Minister Bell is when RWED was one department, he was involved with this. Now that’s falling into Minister Miltenberger’s side of the equation. The fees will address cost to collect, process, transport containers, and to administer the program. An unredeemed deposit, when everybody goes forward and buys their pop or their juice packs and pays their deposit, if they don’t return them back to the depot, that money that is unredeemed as they say, will go towards the administration costs of the program and we’ll cover the other costs...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I am just trying to get that information to see if in fact they are for a term position. I think we had better go to the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs. I don't have the detail in my briefing book.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. The money that was approved in 2004-05 for the Territorial Treatment Centre and subsequently brought forward this year would lapse and as we are doing now, the money has now been identified through the supplementary appropriation that is going to come before this House and will be dealt with in that fashion, requesting the Assembly to approve the change in designation of those funds. Those funds were identified for the facility, Territorial Treatment Centre, in Yellowknife. To move that money now to upgrade that facility would require approval of this Assembly....

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The reason the department was asking for this money initially was to provide the start-up funds. So that is setting up the depots, the equipment that would be needed. At that point, as the recycled materials started arriving and we started sending out the materials for the rebate, then as the money flowed in it would allow them to then become self-sustaining. The goal is to be self-sustaining, but it was realized at that point that start-up costs needed to be identified and attached to this to make it a worthwhile process and to have it come into place.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the funding has been broken down into the different regions and the number of delegates from those communities. For example, Deh Cho, Fort Simpson, four delegates from the 13 communities and GNWT staff. Norman Wells, again four delegates from the 11 communities and staff as well as the Beaufort-Delta. It has been developed with a budget around how many people they are going to get from the different communities and the staff there and the cost for travel, accommodation and facilitator fees. It has been broken down for that. For actual information...

Mr. Chairman, I didn’t quite get the full question on that one. Was it what the money would be used for? Capital equipment to set up the depots and regional processing centres is what it’s identified for. Was there more information the Member was requesting on that?