Floyd Roland

I have nothing further to that, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Madam Chair. My understanding of the breakdown of those costs is as follows: there were some renovations done and some work; Fort Smith health authority had $60,000 for an office for community counselling program; Fort Smith renovations for a birthing room; Inuvik improvements to office space for a social worker, home care, public health nurse, community health representatives positions; and, in Yellowknife for office space for medical and support staff. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The first part of this, the $40,000 stated, is a result of a decision made that affects the Yellowknife Airport. We have to increase our baggage screening equipment and process. The second part of that, the $41,000, is the transfer of assets and the accounting of those assets for the Aklavik and Tulita old airport terminal facilities. The $400,000 involves much more that comes into play around the discussions the Department of Transportation has had with CATSA -- that’s the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority -- in the amount of work that needs to be done at...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. They are not new positions. They were providing services for the community of Inuvik, so they moved from the regional hospital. That’s my understanding. They were fit into an office space that was not designed for the program that’s being offered. This has been in the works for awhile but did not make the cut initially as the plans went forward, so they have come forward on this basis.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, for the record, the original estimates that were done did show, in fact, there was going to be a substantial increase from the old facility. The attachment provided to members shows that, for example, electricity, the units that they would use, 2.8 million kilowatt hours, as well as unit cost of that, the heating costs of 25,000 gigajules and the unit costs for that. What happened was the original estimate was done in 1999. It showed a substantial increase. As the facility came online, there was another estimate done using newer information, and it showed...

Thank you, Madam Chair. There were a number of things that happened. One was to cordon off the area itself where the collapse happened. The facility was not in use for about three weeks. Repairs were started, inspections done on the facility and the normal work that would happen about that. When it was about to be opened, unfortunately there was an incident occurred where an individual had decided that they did not want to return to school is my understanding. So they lit one section of the school on fire. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, yes, the money is being spent in this year. What has been happening is we hired the consultants initially to look at the facility, as well as a replacement process that goes on. There are tests being done on the three resupply pipelines, as well there is an awarding of the construction contract for two vertical tanks and an order of resupply piping and a number of other things. So this is work that will be done so they can be prepared for the barge shipping dates in the summer of 2005. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following document entitled Government of the Northwest Territories 2003 Public Service Annual Report. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, after a substantial amount of work done on this from the finance and insurance side, an audit was done on the facility as well as work done from the Public Works and Services end, to see if the procedures that were being followed and done were appropriate, as well as what may have been the cause of the failure.

There were a number of things that happened and the difficulty is the fact that this building is 37 years old and trying to go back to the actual construction of the facility and further repairs that may have been done. In doing the history and...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is a replacement. It is not a refit. As I said, we did realize there was a concern here and put a plan in place to fix that. On the report coming back from the consultant, we were made aware that we would have to move that project ahead significantly.

As well, as I stated earlier, that is the full replacement of the tank and the fuel lines that they use to refill that facility. Thank you.