Tom Beaulieu

For more detail, I’ll ask the deputy minister to provide that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’ll just have the deputy minister explain the difference between the two quickly.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will ask the deputy minister to respond to that specific question.

Finance will be doing the same thing. To show a true reflection of what the shift is, they will be putting the positions in previous years, so it wouldn’t show a sharp increase in positions there as well.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As a government, we’re going through the process of responding to the overall vacancy positions, dormant positions and the positions that have been identified in the House. What we’re presenting here are the main estimates and the changes that we’re going from one main estimate to the other main estimate and not which PYs are being reported through PeopleSoft. What we are providing to the Members as the overall from the government was to indicate and respond to the questions of the dormant positions, positions to be filled, and then a full report that we are going to be...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’ll have the deputy minister respond to that.

Five of the positions were devolution positions being added to a department. Human Resources provides, as the House knows, a service to all of the departments, and the increase of the positions as a result of devolution meant that we hired in strategic human resources a manager, a labour relations advisor, and three people in management and recruitment services, client service and two human resource officers. Those were five positions. Also, one position was transferred from the Department of Finance, financial shared services, as a senior financial planning budget analyst also here in...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, it is.

Thank you. For that detail I would ask that the deputy minister provide the response.

Mr. Chairman, these are active files ongoing, so there would be various duties offered to accommodate individuals that wish to be accommodated by modified duties, hours, looking at worksites and equipment, providing alternate positions and/or bundling existing duties, so trying to find suitable accommodation for individuals. If we have come to a complete impasse, the file at this time is remaining open and we are continuing to attempt to accommodate. I don’t know what other alternatives would be, aside from what we can do to accommodate an individual. At some point we provide all of the...