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Government Services Committee — Department of Finance increase by that substantial amount of money, which is about $1 — 4 May 19991999-05-04—
Social Services Committee — Department of Municipal Affairs — 7 April 20092009-04-07—
Resource Committee — 4 May 20092009-05-04—
Social Services Committee — Department of Justice and Public Safety — 27 April 20162016-04-27—
Resource Committee — Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture — 5 August 20062006-08-05—
Resource Committee — 3 April 20002000-04-03—
Social Services Committee — Department of Justice budget — 5 April 20182018-04-05—
Social Services Committee — Department of Children, Seniors and Social Development Newfoundland and Labrador Housing Corporation — 2 June 20212021-06-02—
Resource Committee — Department of Forest Resources and Agrifoods — 30 March 20002000-03-30—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Public Works and Services — 10 September 19921992-09-10—
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—
Public Accounts Committee — 23 November 20222022-11-23—
Social Services Committee — Department of Education, to introduce broadband access to communities. Maybe it was a concerted effort across government rather than just the Department of Education, but it would seem to me that if broadband arrives in a community then their impacts for post-secondary education, for health and for business et cetera. That is why I am interested in the number of schools that do not have what we would call broadband access. Pardon my sort of ignorance on the technicalities, but I just MR. JACKMAN: I will repeat again, there will be no school that would not have access to MR. KIRBY: They would have some degree of connectivity? MR. JACKMAN: Yes, and it would be high speed. MR. KIRBY: Okay. I have some other questions. You have been hearing the same things I have been hearing, perhaps. I am just wondering, with respect to the teacher allocation formula this year, does the department expect there will be a reduction in the number of teachers or an adjustment in the number of teachers? MR. JACKMAN: We expect that there will. The finalized number we have not had yet but it is a trend that if we have a decrease in student population, well the teacher allocation method, as I have said in this House on several occasions, has changed. It has gone to a needs-based approach right now. We expect there will be some teachers lost, but it will be because of declining enrolment. MR. KIRBY: Those declining enrolments are occurring in rural, outport regions? MR. JACKMAN: The majority of them would be in rural. Anybody who knows the Northeast Avalon here, certainly it is not declining, but it will be across the Province. MR. KIRBY: Do you know if those are localized in particular regions? MR. JACKMAN: No, they are not. MR. KIRBY: How about grade levels? Do they impact particular grade levels more than others or are they MR. JACKMAN: No, it is a different scenario from across the entire Province. MR. KIRBY: Okay. I want to move to 3.5.01. Provincial Informatio2012-05-16—
Resource Committee — Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture — 5 July 20012001-07-05—
Government Services Committee — Department of Finance, to discuss the Estimates of the department — 10 April 20002000-04-10—
Resource Committee — Department of Natural Resources. First of all, I would like to ask the Committee members to introduce themselves by name and district. MR. PARSONS: Kelvin Parsons, MHA for Burgeo & LaPoile. MR. JOYCE: Eddie Joyce, MHA for Bay of Islands. MR. HUNTER: Ray Hunter, MHA for Windsor-Springdale. MS JOHNSON: Charlene Johnson, MHA for Trinity-Bay de Verde. — 4 June 20112011-06-04—
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—
Social Services Committee — Department of Education and Early Childhood Development — 25 May 20152015-05-25—
Government Services Committee — 6 May 20152015-05-06—
Resource Committee — Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture — 17 April 20252025-04-17—
Resource Committee — House Business Journals — 18 May 20112011-05-18—
Resource Committee — Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture — 23 April 20242024-04-23—
Government Services Committee — Department of Justice — 6 May 19921992-05-06—
Resource Committee — Department of Industry, Trade and Rural Development is being allocated $47 million to lead its implementation to build on the strong foundation and economic momentum we have established in recent years. This includes an additional $2.8 million in a new program and operational funding to strengthen its capacity to advance and diversify the economy and create new jobs throughout the Province. Among other priorities, these new resources will support the strategic partnership initiative between business, labour and government that was launched in January of this year, as well as a new business investment attraction initiative that was announced in the Throne Speech. This new initiative will be modeled after and emulate the success achieved by Network Newfoundland and Labrador in attracting new call centres and new jobs to the Province in recent years. Small business development will also continue to play a major role in government's overall economic development agenda. A small business advisory council will be established in 2002 to provide ongoing advice and support to the Minister of Industry, Trade and Rural Development on appropriate new measures that can help grow this vital and dynamic part of our economy. Funding, in the amount of $2.6 million, will be renewed for the Strategic Enterprise Development Fund in the department to directly encourage new small business startups and expansions in all areas of the Province. The significant resources being allocated by the department reflect government's strong commitment to an action oriented and progressive economic development agenda. This morning I will respond, if possible, to the particular inquiries that might be put forward. However, I realize my limitations as well in terms of a knowledge base. So I will, in many instances, if and when needed, defer to the officials of the department to provide the information that you might require. Thank you. — 5 February 20092009-02-05—
Government Services Committee — House Business Journalshousebusiness_journals_ga45session1_04-05-10—
Social Services Committee — Department of Education — 3 June 20212021-06-03—
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 a2013-04-15—
Public Accounts Committee — House Business Journalshousebusiness_journals_ga50session2_23-10-25—
Social Services Committee — Department of Child, Youth and Family Services — 2 April 20142014-04-02—
Social Services Committee — Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment — 2 May 20172017-05-02—
Social Services Committee — Department of Municipal and Provincial Affairs, Executive and Support Services, 1 — 25 April 20242024-04-25—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Health — 20 May 20252025-05-20—
Government Services Committee — 4 June 20032003-06-04—
Government Services Committee — Department of Transportation and Works mailroom to the Motor Registration Division for the new print-on-demand vehicle stickers, which are now done from our Mount Pearl location. Some of these savings were reallocated to our French Services and Commercial Registration Division. All in all, this resulted in $28,400 as the amount of a year over year operational savings. We also had an attrition target of $550,600 for 2019-20 which was achieved. believe all Members here tonight will have witnessed first-hand at some point the hard work of at least one of the divisions of Service NL, and I'm sure we can all appreciate the commitment of staff to the serving of the people of our province. The Office of French Services provides French language training and translations services to government. This office also provides support to the Minister Responsible for Francophone Affairs. In addition, through the Office of the Queen's Printer, the department provides printing services for the provincial government and the general public. I'm also the Minister Responsible for the Public Procurement Agency, the central procurement unit of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is responsible for the oversight of the procurement process for goods and services on behalf of all public bodies. The agency also establishes policies for procurement as part of the public procurement framework and provides information, training and oversight of procurement activities of all public bodies. The mandate of the agency is provided within the Public Procurement Act which was proclaimed in March of 2018. It has an annual budget of over $1.9 million. The WorkplaceNL Review Division reviews decisions of WorkplaceNL to ensure compliance with the act as well as regulations and policies. The division provides vital appeal services to employers and workers and pursues continuous improvement in the area of client service. The costs are recovered 100 per cent from Work2019-06-17—
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 — reportofthegovernmentservicescommitteemay 2018business_electronicdocuments_reportofthegovernmentservicescommitteemay2018—
Resource Committee — Department of Fisheries — 4 June 20112011-06-04—
Government Services Committee — Department of Service NL — 26 May 20152015-05-26—
Social Services Committee — Department of Social Services; behind me is Mr — 1 May 19911991-05-01—
Government Services Committee — 4 April 20012001-04-04—
Government Services Committee — Department of Transportation and Works — 5 May 20152015-05-05—
Social Services Committee — Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment — 19 April 20182018-04-19—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Transportation and Works 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: Kevin Parsons, MHA Members: Keith Russell, MHA Eli Cross, MHA George Murphy, MHA Tom Osborne, MHA Calvin Peach, MHA Clerk of the Committee: Elizabeth Murphy ___________________________________________________________________________________ Appearing: Office of the Auditor General Terry Paddon, Auditor General Sandra Russell, Deputy Auditor General Stephanie Lewis, Audit Senior — 31 July 20142014-07-31—
Resource Committee — Department of Natural Resources — 27 April 20092009-04-27—
Resource Committee — Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture to the Estimates Committee. I am going to begin with the people behind me: Brett Wareham, who is responsible in the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture for fishery development and infrastructure; Sonia Glover-Sullivan is a public relations director; Mr. John Bullen, is responsible for finance over in Fisheries and Aquaculture but works in the Department of Natural Resources; Jerry Ward, ADM responsible for Aquaculture; and sitting next to me is Leslie Dean, who is the Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture. I am not going to use up a lot of time in my opening remarks this morning, because as I said, this is my fifth time, as Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, making a presentation to the Estimates Committee. Most people here are quite familiar with the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture and its responsibilities. I am just going to touch on a couple of issues. The role of the department, as everybody knows, is as follows: the responsibility for promoting ongoing developing in the harvesting, processing, and marketing sectors of the fishing industry and for articulating policies relative to the management of fisheries resources, comprehensive programs relative to technical innovations, resource assessment, resource diversification, aquaculture development, productivity and quality enhancement. I guess if I were to say one thing it is this. The topic that has been most on all our minds in the last five years is diversification and the quality enhancement program. Over the years in the fishing industry in Newfoundland and Labrador there was very little emphasis put on the need to development a top quality product. The fish seemed to be just a fish, something that you take out of the ocean, no looking to where it was going, the end user, or the deriving of maximum price. It is hard to explain, but nevertheless that was certainly right throughout the industry from the harvesting and the proces2000-03-28—
Resource Committee — Department of Advanced Education, Skills and Labour — 13 June 20192019-06-13—
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Social Services Committee — Department of Education and Early Childhood Development — 25 May 20152015-05-25—
Social Services Committee — Department of Education, to give further detail to the Social Services Committee with respect to the budget items regarding education for the year 1998-1999. I understand, having been here before, that a brief introductory comment is usually appreciated. We have so much news this year that I would really like to have about an hour or so of your time, but I will try to shorten it and allow for more questions; noting as well, I am sure, that myself and Mr. Hodder, as the Opposition Education critic, will explore more of these matters in detail in subsequent Question Periods and things of that nature. There were two or three things. Before I go into them, I will just introduce the staff I have with me today. On my right is Mr. Wayne Green, who is the Deputy Minister. I think many people in this room would know Mr. Green from his many years in the public service, his many different involvements in many different departments. Most recently he has been the Deputy Minister of Government Services and Lands, before moving to Education early in the new year, and had prior service and experience in the Department of Education in a previous administration when there used to be two departments, one for K to XII and one for post-secondary. Mr. Green was in that particular department - I think it was career development and advanced education at the time - (inaudible). We also have Mr. Bob Young with us, who is our Assistant Deputy Minister for Finance and Administration. Many in the room would again know Mr. Young from some of his experiences - in the last few years in particular when he was with Treasury Board and actually, before he came to Education, had been the Director of Budgeting for the Province in the previous budget exercise we went through a year or so ago. He also had extended involvement with federal government agencies and the private sector as well. I am joined, as always - the government doesn't like for me to go very far without my Dir1998-05-05—
Public Accounts Committee — Report of the Auditor General on Personal Care Homes Published under the authority of the Speaker of the House of Assembly Honourable Derek Bennett, MHA PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE Report of the Auditor General on Personal Care Homes Chair: Pleaman Forsey, MHA Vice-Chair: Lucy Stoyles, MHA Members: Joedy Wall, MHA Jordan Brown, MHA Perry Trimper, MHA Clerk of the Committee: Bobbi Russell Appearing: Office of the Auditor General Denise Hanrahan, Auditor General Sandra Russell, Deputy Auditor General Adam Lippa, Audit Principal, Performance Audit Chrysta Collins, Manager of Communications — 20 May 20252025-05-20—
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