Mr. Chairman, also in the area of personnel, the Standing Committee on Government Operations had been concerned with the dissolution of the Department of Personnel taking away some functions. There was supposed to be financial savings, but we were not absolutely convinced of this because it seems now that there may be just as many or more people working in the personnel area within the various departments. Because of that, the committee has decided we wanted to make a motion that would ask for some analysis. With that, Mr. Chairman,
I move that this Committee recommends that an analysis of the transfer of human resource administration functions to the departments from the Department of Personnel be undertaken to quantify the net results in terms of expenditures and efficiency. This analysis should include the following: 1. A comparison of the funding required by all departments to administer the human resource function in relation to the funding previously required to operate the Department of Personnel;
2. A list of the responsibilities that were transferred to the Financial Management Board Secretariat from the Department of Personnel;
3. An analysis of the additional funds now being spent by boards and agencies as a result of this change in service delivery;
4. Information as to the present number of employees by department and region required for the human resource function compared to the numbers previously employed by the Department of Personnel. This should include employees at the board and agency level.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.