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Social Services Committee — Department of Justice and Public Safety — 11 June 20192019-06-11—
Social Services Committee — Department of Justice — 23 April 19971997-04-23—
Resource Committee — Department of Natural Resources — 20 April 20112011-04-20—
Government Services Committee — Department of Digital Government and Service NL — 19 April 20242024-04-19—
Government Services Committee — Department of Finance — 1 May 20122012-05-01—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Education will provide to that board — 14 November 20022002-11-14—
Government Services Committee — Service NL and Public Procurement Agency Published under the authority of the Speaker of the House of Assembly Honourable Perry Trimper, MHA GOVERNMENT SERVICES COMMITTEE Service NL and Public Procurement Agency Chair: Randy Edmunds, MHA Vice-Chair: John Finn, MHA Members: Carol Anne Haley, MHA Keith Hutchings Neil King, MHA Lorraine Michael, MHA Betty Parsley, MHA Barry Petten, MHA Clerk of the Committee: Sandra Barnes Appearing: Service NL and Public Procurement Agency Hon. Sherry Gambin-Walsh, MHA, Minister Bernard Davis, MHA, Parliamentary Secretary Sean Dutton, Deputy Minister Service NL and Chief Procurement Officer (interim), Public Procurement Agency Robyn Hayes, Departmental Comptroller Patricia Hearn, Chief Operating Officer (A), Public Procurement Agency Marlene Hickey, Chief Review Commissioner, WHSC Review Division Melony O’Neill, Director of Communications Roxie Wheaton, Assistant Deputy Minister, Government Services Branch Kelly White, Executive Assistant Also Present Paul Lane, MHA Kevin Parsons, MHA Gerry Rogers, MHA Veronica Hayden, Researcher, Official Opposition Office Ivan Morgan, Researcher, Third Party Office April 17, 2018 GOVERNMENT SERVICES COMMITTEE 43 Pursuant to Standing Order 68, Kevin Parsons, MHA for Cape St. Francis, substitutes for Keith Hutchings, MHA for Ferryland. Pursuant to Standing Order 68, Gerry Rogers, MHA for St. John’s Centre, substitutes for Lorraine Michael, MHA for St. John’s East - Quidi Vidi. The Committee met at 6:05 p.m. in the Assembly Chamber. CHAIR (Edmunds): Okay, welcome everyone. We’re going to review the Estimates now for the Public Procurement Agency, Service NL and workplace health and safety. I’d like to first point out that the Member for Cape St. Francis is substituting for the Member for Ferryland, and the Member for St. John’s Centre is substituting for the Member for St. John’s East - Quidi Vidi. What we’re going to do this evening is we’re going to start off reviewing2018-04-17—
Resource Committee — Department of Forestry and Agriculture — 12 May 19921992-05-12—
Social Services Committee — 28 March 20002000-03-28—
Social Services Committee — Department of Health and Community Services represents 35 per cent of the entire provincial budget currently. So from our point of view, we are very conscious that we need to try and improve efficiency, contain expenditures, yet manage to provide quality services at the same time. So finding cost-effective and innovative solutions is important, both in the short and the long term. That includes evaluations of what we do based on outcomes so that we are doing things that make clinical and fiscal sense. Through the GRI, the Government Renewal Initiative, and budget 2016-17 processes, the department, along with its four regional health authorities and the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information, as well as the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial, have identified a number of potential saving opportunities that will help improve the efficiency of how we do business, how we deliver health care in the province. preface the Estimates document, a number of the variances contained in the Estimates document can be explained with the same explanation under the items on decrease in revenue from 2015-16 budget to the 2015-16 projected revised. In the majority of the department's operating accounts, such as Transportation and Communications, Supplies, and Purchased Services, there's a decrease. This decrease is due to the department's expenditure management plan. This was introduced initially in 2011-12 in an effort to reduce discretionary spending. The department has successfully reduced its operating accounts by over 55 per cent, or $2.3 million, since 2011-12. The following are some examples of the steps that have been taken in the department to reduce those operating accounts. It was the first department to implement a management print strategy, it's got an established inventory control system for office supplies, we have a policy regarding the purchase of food and refreshments for meetings and we've increased the use of teleconferencing2016-05-11—
Public Accounts Committee — 22 March 20222022-03-22—
Resource Committee — Department of Development and Rural Renewal — 28 May 19961996-05-28—
Government Services Committee — House Business Journalshousebusiness_journals_ga48session3_18-03-27—
Social Services Committee — Department of Social Services — 14 May 19911991-05-14—
Resource Committee — Department of Tourism and Culture — 25 May 19931993-05-25—
Social Services Committee — Department of Health and Community Services — 8 April 20222022-04-08—
Government Services Committee — 5 May 20222022-05-05—
Resource Committee — Department of Environment and Conservation — 5 August 20152015-08-05—
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 — 31 March 20092009-03-31—
Resource Committee — department of tourism culture industryandinnovation — 1 May 20172017-05-01—
Social Services Committee — Department of National Defence — 5 May 20142014-05-05—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Education entitled, Review of Retiring and Executive Compensation — 28 September 19991999-09-28—
Resource Committee — department of fisheries and land resources — 16 April 20182018-04-16—
Government Services Committee — House Business Journalshousebusiness_journals_ga45session3_journal_2006-03-29—
Social Services Committee — Department of Human Resources, Labour and Employment — 5 April 20192019-04-05—
Government Services Committee — Concurrence ReportGA50—
Government Services Committee — 26 April 20072007-04-26—
Resource Committee — environment and conservation — 8 April 20142014-04-08—
Social Services Committee — Department of Health — 20 October 20202020-10-20—
Government Services Committee — Department of Finance, yet we see an increase in senior personnel within the department. For example, ten years ago I believe there was one Deputy Minister and two Assistant Deputy Ministers. Today it is my understanding there are three or four ADMs in the department. I wonder how we rationalize that. We see a significant reduction in the overall personnel within the department. We now have approximately one half of what it was ten years ago, but yet the department enjoys the services of four Assistant Deputy Ministers and a Deputy Minister. MR. DICKS: Just let me respond first of all. There was actually two deputy ministers some years ago. There was a Controller General which was a DM position, that was Bernard Carew, I believe. Gilbert Gill was there I guess about ten years ago roughly, and there were three ADMs at the time, so actually we have one less senior executive position. The Department of Finance is a little different than most departments in the sense that you have people with very high skill levels. If you just look at the amount of money we administer and collect we are responsible for almost $3.5 billion worth of money that comes in each year, and the handling of it. You cannot really hire someone for $20,000 and say: Look, here is the money, now make sure it all gets handled and collected properly and so on like that. It requires a very high level of financial adminstration. If you compare what we pay our senior people with what you would get in a corporate sector we are far below it. Just check Newfoundland Telephone, for example, and see what the wages for a VP there are. Check the wages of the controller down at Fortis for example. Most of these are in the $200,000 range. We are not paying that to any of our ADMs who exercise far greater monetary authority. If you look at some of the figures, what we administering in sinking funds alone, or going to market, we require people to do very complicated analysis. We have1998-05-05—
Resource Committee — reportoftheresourcecommittee 2021business_electronicdocuments_reportoftheresourcecommittee2021—
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—
Social Services Committee — Department of Health and Community Services — 7 May 20142014-05-07—
Government Services Committee — Department of Finance — 23 April 20132013-04-23—
Resource Committee — department of business tourism cultureandrural developmentandandforestryandagrifoodsagency — 19 April 20162016-04-19—
Government Services Committee — 30 September 20192019-09-30—
Resource Committee — reportoftheresourcecommitteeapril 2018business_electronicdocuments_reportoftheresourcecommitteeapril2018—
Social Services Committee — Estimates 2012business_electronicdocuments_estimates2012—
Government Services Committee — Department of Finance, Public Service Commission and Consolidated Fund Services — 17 April 20252025-04-17—
Public Accounts Committee — House Business Journalshousebusiness_journals_ga49session1_19-06-25—
Social Services Committee — Department of Education — 8 April 20092009-04-08—
Resource Committee — Department of Environment and Conservation — 10 May 20102010-05-10—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of Justice 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 Pauline Reynolds, Audit Senior — 23 July 20142014-07-23—
Social Services Committee — Department of Education — 4 March 20072007-03-04—
Government Services Committee — 5 February 20132013-02-05—
Social Services Committee — Department of Health and Community Services — 3 April 20002000-04-03—
Government Services Committee — Department of Labrador Affairs — 18 April 20242024-04-18—
Resource Committee — Forestry and Agrifoods Agency Published under the authority of the Speaker of the House of Assembly Honourable Wade Verge, MHA RESOURCE COMMITTEE Forestry and Agrifoods Agency Chair: Eli Cross, MHA Members: Ray Hunter, MHA Nick McGrath, MHA Lorraine Michael, MHA Christopher Mitchelmore, MHA Tracey Perry, MHA Sam Slade, MHA Clerk of the Committee: Kimberley Hammond Appearing: Forestry and Agrifoods Agency Hon. Vaughn Granter, MHA, Minister Stephen Balsom, Assistant Deputy Minister, Forestry Services Keith Deering, Assistant Deputy Minister, Agrifoods Development James Evans, Chief Executive Officer, Forestry and Agrifoods Agency Clayton Forsey, MHA, Parliamentary Secretary Philip Ivimey, Departmental Controller Roger Scaplen, Director, Communications Rob Stead, Executive Assistant Also Present Calvin Peach, MHA Scott Reid, MHA Ivan Morgan, Researcher, NDP Office Ian Murphy, Researcher, Official Opposition Office May 26, 2015 RESOURCE COMMITTEE 147 Pursuant to Standing Order 68, Calvin Peach, MHA for Bellevue, substitutes for Nick McGrath, MHA for Labrador West. Pursuant to Standing Order 68, Scott Reid, MHA for St. George’s – Stephenville East, substitutes for Sam Slade, MHA for Carbonear – Harbour Grace. The Committee met at 9:02 a.m. in the Assembly Chamber. CHAIR (Cross): Good morning, everyone. MR. GRANTER: Morning. CHAIR: I think everybody has gathered, Minister – all your officials are here. Welcome to the Estimates for Forestry and Agrifoods. A couple of reminders or housekeeping chores before we start: Mr. Peach is in for Mr. McGrath this morning, and Mr. Reid is filling in for Mr. Slade. I need a motion for the minutes of the last meeting. MR. MITCHELMORE: Moved. CHAIR: Moved by Mr. Mitchelmore; seconded by Ms Perry. All those in favour, ‘aye.’ SOME HON. MEMBERS: Aye. Carried. On motion, minutes adopted as circulated. CHAIR: Okay, routines for today, we give the minister fifteen minutes to start with an opening statement, if he wishes, t2015-05-26—
Public Accounts Committee — Department of non-compliance with the agreement — 5 November 19971997-11-05—
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