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Social Services Committee — Department of Child, Youth and Family Services for 2011-2012 reflects a department that continues to operate in transition — 5 November 20092009-11-05—
Social Services Committee — Department of Education and the Women's Policy Office — 5 August 20202020-08-05—
Government Services Committee — Department of Labrador and Aboriginal Affairs — 5 July 20022002-07-05—
Resource Committee — Department of Natural Resources — 14 May 20122012-05-14—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Finance — 29 January 20252025-01-29—
Social Services Committee — Department of Justice — 5 July 20142014-07-05—
Resource Committee — Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation. If there are no errors, or if you do not see any errors or omissions, could somebody move that they be passed? On motion, minutes adopted as circulated. — 10 May 19991999-05-10—
Government Services Committee — Department of Transportation and Works — 17 April 20132013-04-17—
Resource Committee — environment and conservation climatechangeand energyefficiency — 11 May 20152015-05-11—
Government Services Committee — Department of Labrador Affairs — 18 April 20242024-04-18—
Government Services Committee — Department of Business, Tourism, Culture and Rural Development — 6 May 20152015-05-06—
Resource Committee — Department of Fisheries, for the fiscal year 1993-1994 — 1 June 19931993-06-01—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Education, that is the one that we have to purchase for school kids. MS THISTLE: Can you cite a particular type of emergencies where you would have to purchase goods within a twenty-four hour notice? MS WAKEHAM: One would be firefighting, if we did not have sufficient foam we would pay to deal with a particular problem, and another would be difficulty with a flood, if a pipe burst and we had to get a culvert in and deal with the issue in a very short period of time. Mostly they are things that happen of a natural disaster type where you have to have an immediate response. If the goods and stuff are not there then you have to purchase them immediately to deal with it. We would have lights going out on a runway that have to be replaced immediately, and those kinds of things. MS THISTLE: I would also like to ask you this. When you look at figure 3 on page 4, there were several examples of tender exceptions that were not reported to the Minister of Works, Services and Transportation within five days of awarding the contract. MS WAKEHAM: Yes. MS THISTLE: In fact, there was one incident when an item was not reported for two years. What kind of circumstances would cause this, and what can you do to avoid this in the future? MS WAKEHAM: I think you are referring to the $7.2 million that was for the purchase of the water bombers - MS THISTLE: That is correct. MS WAKEHAM: - which was before my time. I understand the reason that the report was not done was basically because they did not realize they had to do a report, and that was an oversight on the part of the department at that time. When they were notified that that was an exception they had to file for, then the filing was done. MS THISTLE: Are there any safeguards in place now that would prevent that type of incident from happening again? MS WAKEHAM: What we do on a regular basis is we provide seminars to the MASH group which is the municipalities, the school boards and the hosp1998-11-16—
Government Services Committee — Department of Finance increase by that substantial amount of money, which is about $1 — 4 May 19991999-05-04—
Resource Committee — Department of Innovation, Trade and Rural Development — 5 April 20122012-04-05—
Social Services Committee — 20 June 20192019-06-20—
Social Services Committee — Department of Health and Community Services — 2 May 20132013-05-02—
Resource Committee — department of immigrationpopulationgrowthand skills — 9 May 20222022-05-09—
Government Services Committee — 19 May 20112011-05-19—
Resource Committee — Department of Business has been allocated $39 — 1 April 20092009-04-01—
Government Services Committee — 12 May 19991999-05-12—
Social Services Committee — Department of Justice — 23 April 19971997-04-23—
Government Services Committee — Department of Municipal and Provincial Affairs this year to accommodate agreements that we can work with municipalities for them to assume responsibility for provincial roads within their areas. This is an initiative that we will be working in conjunction with the Department of Municipal and Provincial Affairs to try to achieve, within the context of the money that has been reserved for that purpose with the Department of Municipal and Provincial Affairs. Finally, on one of our other major functions, ferry services, we plan to maintain the same service levels as we have in the past year for our ferry services. However, this also assumes that the rate structure that was implemented a couple of years ago will also be maintained, unless there are offsetting savings to compensate for the rate increases that have been planned for. Other than that, gentlemen, I think those are some of the highlights as I see it of the 1997-1998 budget for my department. As I said in the beginning, it reflects very much just a business as usual approach to the major functions of the department, with the difference, I guess, or the comment I would add, being the areas that we are looking at on how to deliver service will be something we will continue to study over the year, but do not have a direct budget implication for 1997-1998. — 28 April 19971997-04-28—
Resource Committee — Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation, we have one bit of housekeeping — 6 May 19991999-05-06—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Transportation and Works — 9 September 20152015-09-09—
Resource Committee — Department of Environment and Conservation — 4 June 20122012-06-04—
Resource Committee — Department of Business — 4 May 20202020-05-04—
Resource Committee — Department of Forestry and Agriculture — 7 June 19931993-06-07—
Resource Committee — Department of Mines and Energy — 9 May 19941994-05-09—
Social Services Committee — Department of Justice and Public Safety is roughly $258 million — 1 June 20212021-06-01—
Social Services Committee — Department of Justice — 23 May 19961996-05-23—
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 fisc2013-04-15—
Government Services Committee — Department of Labrador Affairs — 26 April 20232023-04-26—
Social Services Committee — Department of Human Resources, Labour and Employment — 5 July 20102010-07-05—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Fisheries — 3 March 20122012-03-03—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Industry, Trade and Technology, the Canada-Newfoundland Strategic Investment and Industrial Development Cooperation Agreement, again an issue that the Auditor General looked at in her 1996 annual report. I guess we will proceed directly to the questioning, and I will certainly ask members to my immediate right. Mr. Whelan, would you like to start? MR. WHELAN: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Before we really get into any line of questioning, there are a couple of things I noticed in the report that sort of left me hanging to some degree. I suppose before we go any further, unless we get it cleared up, it sort of probably takes away some credibility from the department or the Auditor General's office. I notice here the Auditor General mentioned on page 3 of our book: "The Committee did not comply with the Agreement in the following respects: The Agreement was not properly administered as funding of programs was not adequately controlled, managed or monitored in accordance with Agreement requirements. For example...," and she lists a number of examples. The response from the department was: "Information to substantiate this was provided to your auditors and for some reason it continues to be ignored." I would like to have that cleared up. It goes on, on page 4: "In order to determine whether the program achieved what it was expected to achieve, the Agreement required that a plan for evaluating the programs and program elements be developed and also that an evaluation framework be developed by December 1992. As at 31 March 1996, no comprehensive evaluation of the Agreement had been planned and no data had been accumulated which could be used to measure the Agreement's impact." The response from the department, on page 5, was that: "There was an evaluation framework prepared by the management committee in 1993 and this was given to your staff. It is the committee's view that compliance with the Agreement has been achieved and that suffi1997-11-06—
Government Services Committee — 30 April 19911991-04-30—
Social Services Committee — Department of Human Resources, Labour and Employment — 5 April 20182018-04-05—
Government Services Committee — Department of Finance — 5 March 20012001-03-05—
Resource Committee — Department of Business — 28 April 20102010-04-28—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Health — 11 August 19931993-08-11—
Social Services Committee — Department of Municipal Affairs — 4 June 20042004-06-04—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Works, Services and Transportation — 12 November 20022002-11-12—
Social Services Committee — 13 June 20192019-06-13—
Social Services Committee — Department of Municipal Affairs — 4 November 20202020-11-04—
Government Services Committee — 28 April 19941994-04-28—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Education — 18 December 20182018-12-18—
Social Services Committee — Department of Human Resources and Employment, along with my officials, to try to respond to questions that may be raised by the members of your Committee relative to the Budget Estimates for our department. Just to give you a brief overview with regard to the operations of the department: as you would all be aware, and I know most of you have had occasion to deal directly with the department, the Department of Human Resources and Employment is mandated to provide programs and services to low income individuals and families in helping them meet their financial needs. In addition, the department also offers a range of career and employment services, with special emphasis on assisting persons facing barriers to labor market participation to acquire the skills, expertise and supports needed to obtain employment. For the upcoming fiscal year 2001-2002, the department has a budget of approximately $262 million, with a staff complement of some 600 providing programs to clients from forty-eight district offices located throughout the Province. During the fiscal year 2000-2001, on average, the department served approximately 54,000 income-support clients monthly. In addition, during the year, we assisted approximately 3,500 clients with labour market programming. The department is divided into three branches: the Corporate Services Branch, which provides services such as finance, human resources, social services appeals board; the Programs and Regional Services Branch, which provides clients with employment and career services and income support; and the Policy and Planning Branch, which assists in identifying and improving client services. Since April 1, 1997, when the former Department of Social Services split to become Human Resources and Employment, HRE has been working on people development, an important part of economic development. I am sure that you would be aware as well that the Minister of Human Resources and Employment is also the lead2001-03-26—
Social Services Committee — Department of Justice — 5 August 20122012-08-05—
Government Services Committee — Department of Justice — 4 February 20292029-02-04—
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