This is page numbers 721 - 753 of the Hansard for the 13th Assembly, 7th Session. The original version can be accessed on the Legislative Assembly's website or by contacting the Legislative Assembly Library. The word of the day was housing.

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Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Some Hon. Members

Agreed.

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The Chair

The Chair David Krutko

Total department, $148,000. Agreed?

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Some Hon. Members

Agreed.

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The Chair

The Chair David Krutko

Page 8, Health and Social Services, operations and maintenance, director of corporate services, $1.248 million. Mr. Erasmus.

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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, we all know that we have a crisis surrounding the shortage of doctors and nurses in the Northwest Territories. It is costing a lot of money to bring people in on a short term basis. We have to fly them in and out and also I understand that because of the nurses' inexperience in the communities, some of the nurses are medevacing people out when normally they would not be because they are afraid that something might happen, understandably so, that they do not want people to be harmed unnecessarily. Mr. Chairman, what I would like to know is there had been a position advertised for the director of human resources and board support for the Department of Health and Social Services, and apparently this has been cancelled. I am sure that this director of human resources and board support would have done a great job in implementing the final Hay Plan job evaluations and everything else. I would like to know why this position has been cancelled? Thank you.

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The Chair

The Chair David Krutko

The Minister of Finance, Mr. Dent.

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Charles Dent

Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I doubt that position would have been involved at all in this job evaluation adjustment that we are talking about today. But in terms of specific positions, I cannot answer that question, so I will have to defer to the Minister of Health and Social Services.

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The Chair

The Chair David Krutko

Minister of Health and Social Services.

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Floyd Roland

Floyd Roland Inuvik

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That position was changed, not cancelled. Some of the roles of the initial position that went out were altered before the job was completed through the evaluation and before taking anybody on. There have been a number of changes within the department so that the role has changed, but there is a new position going out for competition that has been changed in response to the changes that were made previously. Thank you.

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The Chair David Krutko

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Erasmus.

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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This position was put out a couple of times and taken back a couple of times. It was advertised and put out for people to apply to a couple of times already. Is this going to be the last time, and is this position still going to be in existence?

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The Chair David Krutko

Thank you, Mr. Erasmus. Mr. Minister.

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Charles Dent

Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I believe the Member was requesting the Minister of Health and Social Services to answer this question.

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The Chair

The Chair David Krutko

Mr. Minister.

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Floyd Roland

Floyd Roland Inuvik

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The position, as I stated earlier, will be going out to competition not in the same manner as it did previously, but it has nothing to do with the Hay Plan evaluations that were done on the adjustments. If the Member wanted to discuss this at a later time, I would gladly provide him with all the information that is available to me. Thank you.

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The Chair David Krutko

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Erasmus.

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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I believe that having a director of human resources is a very, very important position having to do in the area of nursing and social work. What I would like to know, is there still going to be a director?

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The Chair David Krutko

Mr. Erasmus, like the Minister indicated, this is outside the scope of this particular matter at hand. We are dealing with the Hay Plan job evaluation for nurses, and that is the $1.248 million. Mr. Erasmus.

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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I believe the Minister had already answered a question in relation to this particular position. He indicated that it is going to be going back out. Since he already answered the question, I just want clarification of what position is going to be going out.

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The Chair David Krutko

Clarification, Minister of Health and Social Services.

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Floyd Roland

Floyd Roland Inuvik

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As I stated earlier, there has been some alteration in the actual job itself, but I would have to get more information from my department. As I said earlier in my previous response, I would gladly sit down with the Member and go over this and provide the information that I have available. We could try and do that later on today, if that is possible. Thank you.

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The Chair David Krutko

Thank you. We are dealing with the Department of Health and Social Services, operations and maintenance, director of corporate services, $1.248 million. Agreed?

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Some Hon. Members

Agreed.

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The Chair

The Chair David Krutko

Mr. Erasmus.

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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North

Mr. Chairman, perhaps the Minister could indicate how the Hay Plan job evaluation for nurses and social work positions are actually done because I understand that nurses are complaining that they are not being treated as professionals, and we cannot continue to lose nurses the way we are particularly when people are getting equal salaries to what we are offering here, people's salaries and benefits down south. How are these job evaluations being done?