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Government Services Committee — Department of Finance — 1 May 20122012-05-01—
Social Services Committee — Department of Education — 3 May 20232023-05-03—
Social Services Committee — Department of Justice engages in – in fact, most of them are subject to settlement privilege. And so it's a condition for both the litigants which would include the government entity and the plaintiff or the other defendant that you can't discuss the terms of the settlement publicly. We would be revealing settlement privilege, so you can't really speak about it in any more detail other than to indicate that they were settlement funds. MS. COFFIN: Okay. So the settlement was in favour of the Eastern School District and they were bestowed a sum for something – MR. PRITCHARD: That's correct. MS. COFFIN: – $500,000. MR. PRITCHARD: Yes. MS. COFFIN: Okay. Did we get this one – the Supplies overages I had a look at. 1.2.04, Property, Furnishings and Equipment, we had a $127,000 overage in the last year. I noticed it went back down again in Estimates. Can you explain to me what the overage was about? MR. A. PARSONS: I think I can jump in there. That was the increase in the RNC police vehicle allotment. I think we got – the number is 16. So that's 16 new police vehicles and that's the slot that that would have found itself in. MS. COFFIN: How many extra cars do they get for $127,000? MR. A. PARSONS: Four? MS. COFFIN: Sixteen? OFFICIAL: We get 10 to 12 a year. MR. A. PARSONS: Ten to 12 a year and they got four new ones. MS. COFFIN: Sixteen for $127,000? MR. A. PARSONS: Yeah. I thought it was 16. OFFICIAL: We normally get 10 to 12 (inaudible). MR. A. PARSONS: Yes, normally we get 10 to 12 a year. This year we got 16. MS. COFFIN: Oh. MR. A. PARSONS: Yeah. MS. COFFIN: Good, way to go. All right, let's talk about Salaries, Fines Administration, is that attrition, the $16,200 that's down from Budget 2019 to '19-'20 estimates? MR. GREEN: Yes, it is. MS. COFFIN: Okay. So, does that mean that you have the same number of staff but one retired and you put a new junior person back? MR. GREEN: No – MS. COFFIN: It was just total attrition, and that was (inaudib2019-06-11—
Resource Committee — department of advanced education skillsand labour — 24 April 20182018-04-24—
Resource Committee — Department of Mines and Energy — 4 March 20282028-03-04—
Government Services Committee — Department of Labrador Affairs — 14 April 20252025-04-14—
Resource Committee — Department of Advanced Education and Skills — 8 May 20122012-05-08—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Works, Services and Transportation? MR. OSMOND: Don Osmond, Deputy Minister of the Department of Works, Services and Transportation. MR. BAKER: John Baker, Executive Director of Marine Services. MS HANRAHAN: Denise Hanrahan, Director of Financial Operations. MR. PRIM: Tom Prim, Chief Operating Officer of Marine Services. — 3 March 20142014-03-03—
Social Services Committee — Department of Health and Community Services — 24 April 20132013-04-24—
Government Services Committee — Department of Health and Community Services, which we classify as a specialized, hard-to-fill position — 15 April 20252025-04-15—
Social Services Committee — Department of Justice, in a financial aspect? You know, what happens to a family, for reasons - very straightforward, I guess - who cannot afford the proper legal assistance that they need to combat what they feel is an injustice from a financial aspect? MR. PARSONS: We do not have a general policy as to whether you would or would not appoint counsel for anyone who has an inquiry. I am sure you are aware of the shooting in Catalina, for example. In that particular case, Simon, Dr. Avis, did recommend that there be a judicial inquiry. We ordered a judicial inquiry and we sought the advice of the judge as to whether government ought to fund the family solicitor in that particular case. Judge Luther, who is the Chief Judge of the Provincial Court, indeed came back and said that he would recommend, because it was a matter of public interest in the case of that particular shooting, where the police were involved, that we should fund it. So, government did make a decision to fund the legal counsel for the inquiry in both the Catalina shooting as well as the Power situation with the RNC in Corner Brook. There is no general policy. You generally look at each particular fact situation and decide, based upon the merits of it, whether or not legal counsel would be provided by government. As you are aware, the Careen situation was before these latest two took place. MR. MANNING: Is the Chief Medical Examiner of the Province answerable to you as minister? MR. PARSONS: He files his annual reports through here and, as you see from the funding here, he gets his funding through the Department of Justice, but he operates totally independently in terms of what he is authorized to do. There is a separate piece of legislation which outlines what his authorities are and what he is required to do. He does report to, but he certainly does not take direction from. He is a medical examiner who is entrusted to make his own medical judgments. MR. MANNING: The medica2001-04-02—
Social Services Committee — Department of Justice and Public Safety — 6 April 20232023-04-06—
Resource Committee — Department of Works, Services and Transportation — 4 April 20002000-04-04—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Natural Resources, Forestry and Agrifoods Agency. Normally how we begin is that we have the people who are here introduce themselves. Because there is a record being made, a Hansard record, it is important when people speak to identify who the speaker is. That way it makes it easier for the person who is preparing the transcript at a later date. Ordinarily we begin with people introducing themselves so we know who is here. The Auditor General and the Committee members and the Clerk have been here all week, so we know who is here, but we have new individuals this morning. Generally, the process that we follow is we have members from the Committee ask questions and request explanations and so on in approximately ten-minute intervals, and we alternate back and forth. Usually we take a break around 10:30 a.m. How that works out is that generally every member has had an opportunity to ask questions, at least in the morning half and in the afternoon half. Ordinarily we would go through to roughly around 10:30 a.m., and we would break for lunch around 12:30 p.m. or so. Then we will see how much time is required. I suppose I ought to have introduced myself. My name is Jim Bennett and I am Chair of the Public Accounts Committee. Next, I am going to go to Mr. Paddon. MR. PADDON: I am Terry Paddon. I am the Auditor General for the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. MR. WALTERS: Scott Walters, Office of the Auditor General, Audit Manager, Acting. MS RUSSELL: Sandra Russell, Deputy Auditor General. MR. EVANS: Jim Evans; I am the Chief Executive Officer for the Forestry and Agrifoods Agency. MR. BOWERS: Good morning. Wade Bowers; I am the ADM, Forestry Branch. MR. YOUNG: Eric Young; I am the Director of Forest Engineering and Industry Services. MR. FORWARD: Gary Forward; I am the Supervisor of Industry Services. MR. BRAZIL: David Brazil, Vice-Chair of Public Accounts. MR. K. PARSONS: Kevin Parsons, Cape St. Francis. MR. CROSS: Eli Cro2013-10-17—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Education have an amendment to the act which clarifies that — 9 February 19941994-02-09—
Resource Committee — Department of Mines and Energy — 5 April 20202020-04-05—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Health — 29 June 19951995-06-29—
Resource Committee — department of environment and climatechange — 9 June 20212021-06-09—
Public Accounts Committee — 9 July 19911991-07-09—
Resource Committee — Department of Innovation, Trade and Rural Development, and we will begin by having the Committee members introduce themselves. MR. BAKER: Jim Baker, Labrador West. MR. DALLEY: Derrick Dalley, The Isles of Notre Dame. MR. HUNTER: Ray Hunter, Grand Falls-Windsor-Green Bay South. MR. VERGE: Wade Verge, Lewisporte. MR. PARSONS: Kelvin Parsons, Burgeo & LaPoile. MR. LOVELESS: Elvis Loveless, an Opposition staff member. — 5 August 20202020-08-05—
Resource Committee — Department of Industry, Trade and Technology is of a Newfoundland and Labrador with internationally recognized excellence in key sectors characterized by businesses successfully competing in the global economy. Newfoundland and Labrador will be recognized as the administrative and technical leader in the East Coast oil and gas industry, and will be known as a location of choice for conducting business profitably. The people of Newfoundland and Labrador will enjoy a high quality of life supported by skilled, well-paying jobs. That is the overall vision of the department. I will welcome my two officials whom I have already introduced. They will be able to figure out which one you are. I have already explained why you might be a little bit slow coming along. I think as we advance towards this vision we can certainly see, with the Province's Strategic Economy Plan that was done five or six years ago, that we are on the way toward fulfilling this vision and that we have a budget that is helping us do that. While I think we can always use higher budgets, I think that with the priorities that we have set for the $17.3 million investment within the division that we are able to accomplish this vision. The mission of the Department of Industry, Trade and Technology is in partnerships with other governments and private sector to facilitate growth and employment in the Newfoundland and Labrador economy through the focused delivery of programs to promote and encourage business investment and to grow and diversify our industries. I guess when we say partnerships with other governments we mean the federal government and municipal governments because if you look at our EDGE legislation in that, that certainly has a large municipal involvement. The lines of business that the department delivers in accomplishing its mission are five main lines of business, actually: (1) Industrial benefits from the development of the Province's natural resources. I guess one of t1999-05-11—
Social Services Committee — Department of Justice, but I do not think that would be terribly helpful — 19 May 19921992-05-19—
Resource Committee — Department of Finance — 19 May 19921992-05-19—
Resource Committee — Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture — 5 May 19981998-05-05—
Public Accounts Committee — 24 July 20142014-07-24—
Social Services Committee — Department of Health and Community Services, Executive and Support Services, 1 — 4 April 20232023-04-04—
Government Services Committee — 21 April 20112011-04-21—
Government Services Committee — Department of Transportation and Works, you will note in many areas a change from previous budgets due to the line-by-line review that was undertaken. Like every department within government, we have taken steps to rightsize our budget and to work within the budget that we are allocated. There will be a few areas tonight I'm sure the Member opposite will question with regard to some of the changes and you'll probably hear the answer more than once that it's because of averaging over the last five years. We've done a lot of work with that. Areas that we've identified that there are some differences, what we've done is decided to go back over the last five years and then we've averaged out a costing on that. So probably that answer will come several times tonight. This means conducting our monthly reviews of our overall spending and regularly reviewing our overtime and travel and generally conducting an enhanced due diligence on where the money goes. We will also be undertaking a real estate asset management plan to ensure that we review government's real estate portfolio and determine how best to enhance its public value. Throughout our session, if there's anything we're unable to answer for you, we will certainly provide these answers as quickly as possible. So, Mr. Chair, it's all yours. — 4 May 20162016-05-04—
Resource Committee — Department of Immigration, Population Growth and Skills — 5 May 20252025-05-05—
Resource Committee — natural resources — 16 April 20142014-04-16—
Social Services Committee — Department of Education budget is for teacher salaries, substitute teachers, student assistants, professional development, and various services for teachers. Our commitment this year was to ensure there would be no change in the allocation of regular classroom teachers who deliver the required curriculum. There would be no change to allocations to special education. No changes to direct supports for students with special needs, despite what we have heard, and that Newfoundland and Labrador would continue to have the best pupil-teacher ratio of any province in Canada. I repeat, the best, and we have done that. We have retained many teachers in the system over the years, which the allocation formula would have removed. We have even added teachers to the system in some years, despite enrolment decline. In fact, in September of 2013, there will still be about 265 more teachers out there relative to student enrolment than there were five years ago. I think that speaks to our commitment to teachers and to teaching services. Meanwhile, over the course of the last ten budgets this government has taken an aggressive approach to addressing school infrastructure throughout Newfoundland and Labrador. That commitment continues, with almost $102 million provided in Budget 2013 for new and ongoing school infrastructure projects to meet the immediate and the long-term demands throughout the Province. Again, there have been some reductions in this budget, but we are justifiably proud of the investments we have made over the years, and continue to make to improve opportunities for our students. For example, we have eliminated standard school fees. That is at a cost of $50 million since 2006. We have extended the provision of free textbooks to all K-12 public school students, with an investment of over $20 million since 2007. We have kept class sizes at K-9, Kindergarten to Grade 9, reducing the average class size at this level from 20.7 in 2004 to eighteen2013-04-16—
Government Services Committee — Department of Environment — 10 April 20012001-04-10—
Resource Committee — department of natural resourcesand officeof publiceengagement — 19 April 20162016-04-19—
Public Accounts Committee — 16 October 20122012-10-16—
Resource Committee — Department of Labrador & Aboriginal Affairs — 5 February 20012001-02-05—
Social Services Committee — 5 May 19921992-05-05—
Resource Committee — Department of Mines and Energy, be adopted, please — 29 April 19971997-04-29—
Social Services Committee — Department of Education, last but not least, Mr — 4 June 19961996-06-04—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Public Works and Services — 10 September 19921992-09-10—
Resource Committee — 4 June 20122012-06-04—
Government Services Committee — Department of Labrador Affairs — 5 August 20212021-08-05—
Resource Committee — Department of Environment and Conservation — 16 May 20112011-05-16—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Industry, Trade and Technology — 17 November 19981998-11-17—
Government Services Committee — Department of Municipal and Provincial Affairs. As many of you know, because you represent a number of municipalities in your districts, there have been numerous challenges associated with financing in the municipalities, as well as the strength of local governments, adequacy of infrastructure, which is an ever increasing challenge, and the efficiency of our service delivery in the municipalities. Over the last few years, the department has moved away from doing things for the municipalities and has really focused on helping the municipalities to help themselves. That has been clearly the focus of the department. We will continue on this track over time. From a financial perspective, the department has undertaken a number of initiatives again, which many of you are familiar with, but for the record, as you know, we will be contributing a further $5 million to the Debt Relief Program, as was announced. This brings our total funding to $22 million, which is a very important component of working with the financial stability, helping municipalities. We have finalized agreements with sixty-three municipalities and we are in various stages of negotiation with sixty-nine other municipalities. We have refinanced $125 million in seventy municipalities at a much better interest rate. We have reinvested the savings that we have achieved in local infrastructure and in the operations. The Debt Relief Program requires the same tax structures as we would in keeping in line with provincial norms. Our provincial-municipal operating grants are $21.5 million. As you would know, these are unconditional grants we give municipalities to help offset the cost of their operations. Continuing with debt subsidies is $61 million. This is an annual contribution towards water and sewer servicing debt. About $41 or $41.6 million of that goes towards water and sewage, and about $20 million goes to service debt loans on local roads and paving and other issues around2000-03-27—
Social Services Committee — Department of Education — 4 May 20132013-05-04—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Health and Community Services, and in particular the Western Regional Health Authority. I am, first of all, going to ask the Auditor General, Mr. Paddon, to introduce himself. If he has any comments, we are happy to hear them. It is not necessary to have comments, but MR. PADDON: No. My name is Terry Paddon, Auditor General of Newfoundland and Labrador, and I think for this hearing I will probably dispense with my comments. I think the report is fairly straightforward, nothing that I think I really need to elaborate on. — 16 October 20132013-10-16—
Social Services Committee — Department of Justice is concerned — 5 November 20162016-11-05—
Resource Committee — Department of Business — 5 April 20132013-04-05—
Public Accounts Committee — 18 January 19951995-01-18—
Resource Committee — environment and conservation — 8 April 20142014-04-08—
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