Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let me break the response to the question into two parts. First of all, in terms of nurses' housing, typically nurses' accommodations are dedicated units in a community and there has not really been a problem to date with accommodating nurses. On the teachers' side, the Secretariat works with the Divisional Education Council if a problem is identified in a community. On an overall basis we have taken a number of different approaches in some of the smallest communities where there is, typically, one housing unit that is occupied by the teacher. In five such communities, we have turned the housing unit over to the Divisional Education Council along with operations and maintenance funding so that the Education Council themselves can administer the housing that is available. We have embarked on discussions with communities, to further devolve directly to them. With this devolution, we will include operations and maintenance funding so that communities will be able to set the rents outside of operations and maintenance funding and, perhaps, make some money on the housing while keeping rents at an attractive level. The bottom line, Mr. Chairman, is that as a Divisional Education Council identifies a particular problem, the Secretariat works with that council to try to deal with the situation on a one-on-one basis.
Charles Dent on Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on April 20th, 1999. See this statement in context.
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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