Social Services Committee — Department of Fisheries, as well, through that division. We have our Provincial Affairs, which is really the Registrar General, which I am as the Minister of Municipal Affairs. I execute that function. Then we have Financial Services in which we provide financial services to five departments, along with a couple of agencies and whatnot from that division. It just does not service Municipal Affairs; it actually services a broad range of departments right across the Province. Also, I am responsible for Fire and Emergency Services. Under Fire and Emergency Services, we provide education, training, certification, regulation, enforcement, and all that kind of good stuff to close to 300 – 270-odd, I think, or 280 fire departments and fire halls right across the Province. We support them as well under Fire and Emergency Services with some capital money for vehicles and equipment. We support them in the best way we possibly can, mainly in the education and training area, which is really important to me, as a minister. Under Municipal Affairs, we have 147 staff. We have 100 permanent, thirty-nine temporary, and we have eight in contract positions. Seventeen of them, I might mention, are with the Financial Services Division, which I again reiterate and press on you that it serves actually five departments, along with the agencies and boards that it oversees, gives advice to. Under that division, there are sixteen permanent and three temporary. Fire and Emergency Services has approximately twenty-five or twenty-seven employees who provide all the training and whatnot that I just mentioned under Fire and Emergency Services. I would like to just mention a couple of things in regard to Budget 2013, and then we will get into the process in regard to my budget. This year, we were very fortunate to bring forward for the 2014 – starting in 2014, as we all know here in the House of Assembly, that municipalities govern themselves on the calendar year, not a

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Newfoundland and Labrador — Committees

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