Sandy Lee

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On this topic I would like to know more detail about what caused this increase in the premium first. Thank you.

Okay, thank you. Am I correct in thinking that currently the GNWT is budgeting $9.5 million as the potential liability, the settlement of this litigation, and that the department was able to find $7.253 million but it was deemed that it was short $2.247 million? So in order to top that $9.5 million we have to now appropriate this $2.247 million extra. I just want to know if I understand that correctly. Where does that $7.253 existing funds come from? Is that money that we have already allocated over the years? Thank you.

So is this another case of one of those not real money things? You’re keeping it on the books. Is it a $3 million liability we are putting down, or $2.769 million we are putting in the books, or maybe it’s $3.231 million? I don’t know. Keeping it on the books there is a liability, or is that money we have paid out?

Thank you on that. There is $231,000 for the loan guarantees associated with the default on the loan guarantee agreement with Sirius. Could I just get the Minister to state again why the government had to incur this $231,000 in expenditures?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We are not able to find page 5, some people on this side. Is that the page that says budget and evaluation, is that page 5?

First of all, Mr. Speaker, I think what the Minister said about the fact that there is a union member in the appeal process, I think the Minister knows that that union member or whoever sits is not there to represent the employee who is going through the appeal. The union member is there as sort of a prop to make sure that the employee…They have a very negligent role to play, which is a complaint of the union. Second of all, Mr. Speaker, this government has not been forwarding a lot of legislative proposals. It hasn’t been a crowded agenda. I believe that Members here are always ready. A...

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question today is to the Minister of FMBS. It is further to the questions that I asked yesterday, which I am afraid I wasn’t as clear, so the Minister was able to get away with very vague answers. I want to re-ask that. Mr. Speaker, I learned recently that, in fact, the appeal process we have for the GNWT employees are very one-sided. It is a process that the union has not agreed to. It is a process where union representatives can’t even sit in on an appeal of an employee and that there are lots of areas step by step in the appeal process that the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am not still clear as to what went wrong with this budgeting process. Was there something discovered in the two years that this has been in operation that something was not built in physically, or was it just a simple case of underestimating the cost of fuel, power and maintenance?

Thank you. The Minister mentioned that the government has folded in the insurance costs for health boards and I’m assuming that coverage covers the health centres and public buildings that health boards run. I’m just wondering, how does the government take care of the school insurance. Is the government at all responsible for educational boards’ insurance?