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Social Services Committee — Concurrence ReportGA50—
Government Services Committee — Department of Transportation and Infrastructure and Public Procurement Agency — 26 April 20242024-04-26—
Resource Committee — Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts and Recreation — 15 April 20242024-04-15—
Social Services Committee — Department of Health and Community Services — 2 May 20172017-05-02—
Social Services Committee — Department of Seniors, Wellness and Social Development — 20 April 20162016-04-20—
Social Services Committee — Department of Health, and the Department of Social Services call for private ad hoc services — 15 May 19911991-05-15—
Resource Committee — department of natural resourcesand officeof publiceengagement — 19 April 20162016-04-19—
Government Services Committee — Department of Government Services and Lands — 5 May 19991999-05-05—
Government Services Committee — 30 September 20202020-09-30—
Social Services Committee — Department of Education, 1 — 11 April 20252025-04-11—
Social Services Committee — Department of Justice — 23 May 19961996-05-23—
Resource Committee — Department of Innovation, Business, and Rural Development? MR. RUSSELL: So moved. — 22 May 20122012-05-22—
Resource Committee — 30 March 20002000-03-30—
Social Services Committee — Department of Labour — 4 March 20092009-03-04—
Resource Committee — Department of Industry, Energy and Technology — 10 April 20252025-04-10—
Social Services Committee — Department of Health and Community Services — 4 April 20232023-04-04—
Social Services Committee — Department of Education, April 8, 2009 — 4 May 20092009-05-04—
Social Services Committee — House Business Journals — 17 May 20112011-05-17—
Resource Committee — 6 April 19951995-04-06—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment about wetland capping? So, to your knowledge, can you remember receiving any direction from that specific department pertaining to this permit and this request? P. MADDEN: Well, we would have been in contact. I mean, I’m not sure what, specifically, they would have said, but we would have been in constant contact. I don’t think we were getting any feedback like – we were essentially just saying, you know, we’ll get back to you when we can, I guess, that kind of feedback. S. GAMBIN-WALSH: So you did communicate with the department that you guys had a timeline and that you would proceed with your timeline. Were they aware? P. MADDEN: Yes, that would have been part of the communication. S. GAMBIN-WALSH: Okay. Thank you very much. P. MADDEN: I mean, it’s hard to remember exact conversations. These would have been phone conversations and I’m not trying to blame anybody for anything. S. GAMBIN-WALSH: No, I understand. I’m just trying to formulate the communication here. I’m trying to determine, you know, with this specific request from government, wetland capping, Nalcor had its own timelines and its own work plan and so government is putting something into your work plan and you’re in Labrador weather and you’re trying to proceed – like, what was actually happening? Where did the communication – or did it even break down? Maybe it didn’t break down. P. MADDEN: I don’t think it did break down. S. GAMBIN-WALSH: Okay. I am trying to determine were you clear in your communication to government. You had a timeline and this is the timeline you were following. There are also indications that Nalcor had suggested that it could be done after you did your work in that fall. I mean, you’re permits, so you probably – P. MADDEN: It is my understanding that that would have been tough to pull off. It was already a very uncertain approach to reduce the issue. I think that that would have been a worst-case scenar2022-12-13—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Health for review, and then recommendation back to the department. There was a lot of weakness in this process, as you can imagine with disabilities, and the evaluation of whether someone is disabled can be very difficult. We recognize that, and we recognize the fact there were a lot of pressures being brought to bear on family doctors and the like by, I am sure, long-term patients of those doctors, et cetera. We recognize that there were some deficiencies and there were criticisms from a number of sources about the way we dealt with disability pensions, so in 1994 we went out and hired Atlantic Offshore Medical Services. I believe we did a kind of tender on that and Atlantic Offshore Medical Services were hired, as a result of that tender, to adjudicate medical aspects of the applications. So it is an outside, independent, medical operation. All of the medical or disability pension applications now are sent out to Atlantic Offshore, and they come back with an independent recommendation to government and a decision is made. Since that time, as noted here, disability applications have reduced by almost 40 per cent per year. So people are aware, in the system now, that it is much more difficult and the requirements for disability are much more stringent, and that they do go out to outside medical advisors. It is a much more difficult pension now to access. We believe that this system of using an outside consultant is largely responsible for the reduction in the applications that are coming forward. Also in that regard, the Atlantic Offshore Medical Services will use occupational therapists and the like to determine whether people are in fact able to return to work, et cetera. The last item that I will just deal with, and to some extent would like to talk about, is the Teachers' Ancillary Pension Plan. That is the thirty-and-out plan that I mentioned in the Teachers' Pension Plan. There were various particulars raised in the Au1998-11-19—
Social Services Committee — Department of Health — 1 October 20202020-10-01—
Government Services Committee — Department of Finance, a continuation of our meeting from a couple of days ago — 17 April 20252025-04-17—
Government Services Committee — Department of Government Services and there has not been an overall review of the mandate and the role. Since that time there have been major changes in terms of the responsibilities, in terms of delivering services, and in terms of how those services are delivered in the region. So the government has provided money this year so that we can do an overall review, go out and do consultations in the region in terms of the delivery of those services, find out which services are appropriate, which ones are not, look at the legislation and see which is a barrier and which one isn't, and what changes need to be made, and basically go through an overall process of streamlining and becoming more efficient in terms of delivery of services that Government Services is responsible for now. MR. LANGDON: Further with that, the review that you are talking about, that is being done internally by the department, the staff here, or is it done externally? MS WAKEHAM: We will be hiring a co-ordinator, a research assistant, and some secretarial support to do the review. Obviously, I will take responsibility for the overall management of it. It will be done internally, not by staff that we already have; we will be hiring somebody to actually do the work. It will not be done by a consultant. MR. LANGDON: I understand that, but you are hiring people other than what is at the department level to do it? MS WAKEHAM: Yes, I am. MR. LANGDON: The thing, I guess - MS WAKEHAM: I would like to further explain that. The people who are being hired are being hired for nine months. The report will be completed by the end of this year, December 31, 2005, so the review is basically for an eight month period. MR. LANGDON: Okay. At the end of the review, is it possible to have fewer people working than there are now? Is that a possibility? Within the Department of Government Services overall, is it possible, after the review is done, there will be fewer people working? MS WAK2013-05-04—
Public Accounts Committee — 18 January 19951995-01-18—
Resource Committee — Estimates 2016business_electronicdocuments_estimates2016—
Social Services Committee — Department of Health — 19 April 19941994-04-19—
Social Services Committee — Department of Justice, as I am sure all hon members know, provides legal services to government and is primarily responsible for the protection of citizens of the Province in respect of their persons and their property. Just a couple of days ago one of my colleagues asked me how can the Department of Justice provide legal advice to government when I am not even a lawyer. I explained to him that if were a lawyer I would not providing legal advice because the worse thing a lawyer can do, I think, is advise himself. I have to rely on the experts who are around me to provide that legal advice which more often than not is good solid advice, I am sure. So it is legal service to the government, protection of citizens to the Province. The objective is met by providing the police protection, of course, the prosecution of alleged offenders, the operation of the court and the correction systems of the Province, and the provision of services to victims of crime. Also, the drafting of legislation for the House of Assembly comes under this department, which is done by the Office of the Legislative Council which we also provide. During the past year we had a Select Committee of the House of Assembly which did some very valuable work for us where we have re-visited the policy of arming the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary. On behalf of the department I want to express appreciation to the Chairman of that Committee and the members of that Committee who did some excellent work and helped us in making the decision which has proven so far to be the right decision. We have not been getting any major complaints. We did get a few letters, probably not more than a dozen, I suppose, Deputy? WITNESS: (Inaudible). MR. DECKER: No, I didn't know if it was that many, would you, Ralph? It really was a non-issue. There were only a few complaints in St. John's, no more than a dozen I wouldn't think, and one from out around Conception Bay. Most of the other letters which w1998-04-30—
Resource Committee — Department of Mines and Energy — 3 April 20012001-04-03—
Government Services Committee — 1 May 20132013-05-01—
Government Services Committee — Department of Finance, Consolidated Fund Services and Public Service Commission — 11 April 20222022-04-11—
Government Services Committee — 12 May 19991999-05-12—
Government Services Committee — Department of Finance — 5 March 20012001-03-05—
Resource Committee — 9 April 20012001-04-09—
PrivilegesElections Committee — House Business Journalshousebusiness_journals_ga50session2_24-03-13—
Government Services Committee — 10 April 20002000-04-10—
Social Services Committee — House Business Journalshousebusiness_journals_ga46session2_journal_2009-05-07—
Social Services Committee — Department of Education and Early Childhood Development — 26 April 20162016-04-26—
Social Services Committee — 5 August 20202020-08-05—
Resource Committee — 4 April 20002000-04-04—
Social Services Committee — Department of Education were distributed, so the first item of business would be to entertain a motion to pass those minutes. MR. COLLINS: So moved. — 5 July 20072007-07-05—
Public Accounts Committee — 1 June 20192019-06-01—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Justice — 3 December 19961996-12-03—
Social Services Committee — Department of Education — 31 May 19931993-05-31—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Advanced Education and Skills College of the N orth Atlantic Published under the authority of the Speaker of the House of Assembly Honourable Ross Wiseman, MHA Public Accounts Committee ______________________________________________________________________________________ Chair: Jim Bennett, MHA Vice-Chair: David Brazil, MHA Members: Sandy Collins, MHA Eli Cross, MHA Eddie Joyce, MHA Christopher Mitchelmore, MHA Kevin Parsons, MHA Also present: Calvin Peach, MHA Clerk of the Committee: Elizabeth Murphy ___________________________________________________________________________________ Appearing: College of the North Atlantic: Ann Marie Vaughan, President John Hutchings, Vice-President, Finance and Administration Annette Morey, Manager of Internal Audit Mary Tait, Executive Director of Human Resources Office of the Auditor General: Terry Paddon, Auditor General Sandra Russell, Deputy Auditor General Scott Walters, Audit Manager (Acting) September 12, 2013 PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE The Committee met at 9:00 a.m. in the House of Assembly Chamber. CHAIR (Bennett): Good morning, everybody. This is a meeting – I am not sure what we have called these yet; we have called them hearings, meetings – of the Public Accounts Committee of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. This matter is dealing with the — 12 September 20132013-09-12—
Public Accounts Committee — pac ga 50 r 03 committeeactivity secondsession (GA50)GA50—
Government Services Committee — Estimates 2013business_electronicdocuments_estimates2013—
Government Services Committeecommittees_standingcommittees_govservices_ga49_whatweheardrealestate—
Social Services Committee — Department of Health and Community Services — 1 October 20202020-10-01—
Social Services Committee — Department of Municipal Affairs — 5 August 20132013-08-05—
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