Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Minister touched on something about retention and recruitment, that work has been piled up on individuals, so is this going to hire new staff? My concern, for example in retention and recruitment, Mr. Chairman, is that that portion of the budget has grown substantially over the years when it first was created to ease the burden we are finding ourselves in when it came to the nursing shortage which we have not managed to ease, but that budget and the personnel in that section has bloomed like in a very well watered situation. Maybe the Minister can be a little more clear on that, as to what he intends to do with $195,000 in that system-wide management section. He has run off quite a few things that seem to be touched on in this area, but if we spread that out then it just sounds like we are topping up the department so it has a little more money to maneuver. Will we see something come out of this and see services actually improved to individuals? Thank you.
Debates of Oct. 22nd, 2002
This is page numbers 1063 - 1106 of the Hansard for the 14th Assembly, 5th 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 rights.
Topics
Committee Motion 31-14(5): To Add Clause 4 To Bill 27 (carried)
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Committee Motion 31-14(5): To Add Clause 4 To Bill 27 (carried)
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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The Chair David Krutko
The honourable Minister responsible for Health and Social Services, Mr. Miltenberger.
Committee Motion 31-14(5): To Add Clause 4 To Bill 27 (carried)
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, we are working on a whole range of issues tied into the day-to-day operations of Health and Social Services as well as to the action plan. There is no intention to add more staff in headquarters. Of that I can assure my colleague from Boot Lake, and the whole issue of recruitment and retention is one that we are looking at very carefully. We have the recruitment and retention draft that is with the social programs that has just been returned to us from the Social Programs Committee which we want to get ready to take to Cabinet.
We are working on a whole host of issues, things like the core services document. We are trying to come up with a self-care handbook for the Northwest Territories and it has a cost attached to it. We are trying to work on an on-call centre for the Northwest Territories that would be 24 hours a day. The MLAs have come down with us to look at the Capital Health Authority. We are trying to come up with ways to make sure that we have an accountability framework, that we get a way to get an evaluation of customer satisfaction.
We are trying to do work on a delivery model for Health and Social Services that makes sense across the North which is very time consuming. We are working on other basic things like coordinated discharge and planning so that we can avoid a lot of issues that have been raised in this House in terms of glitches that happen when people travel for medical and other appointments. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Committee Motion 31-14(5): To Add Clause 4 To Bill 27 (carried)
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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The Chair David Krutko
At this time I would like to recognize the clock. It is 6:00 p.m. so I will rise and report progress. I would like to thank the Minister and his witness.
Committee Motion 31-14(5): To Add Clause 4 To Bill 27 (carried)
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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The Speaker
The House will come back to order. Item 20, report of the committee of the whole. The honourable Member for Mackenzie Delta, Mr. Krutko.
Item 20: Report Of The Committee Of The Whole
Item 20: Report Of The Committee Of The Whole
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David Krutko Mackenzie Delta
Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Bill 27, An Act to Amend the Elections Act, No. 2; Bill 25, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 4, 2001-02; and Bill 27, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 2, 2002-03, and would like to report progress with one motion being adopted, and that Bill 25 is ready for third reading, and that Bill 27 is ready for third reading as amended. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of the committee of the whole be concurred with.
Item 20: Report Of The Committee Of The Whole
Item 20: Report Of The Committee Of The Whole
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The Speaker
Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Do we have a seconder for the motion? The honourable Member for Inuvik Boot Lake seconds the motion. The motion is in order. All those in favour? Thank you. All those opposed? The motion is carried. Item 21, third reading of bills. Mr. Clerk, may we have the orders of the day?
Item 22: Orders Of The Day
Item 22: Orders Of The Day
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Clerk Of The House Mr. David Hamilton
Mr. Speaker, meetings for tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. of the Standing Committee on Accountability and Oversight; at 10:30 of Governance and Economic Development; and at 12:00 noon of the Board of Management.
Orders of the day for Wednesday, October 23, 2002:
- Prayer
- Ministers' Statements
- Members' Statements
- Returns to Oral Questions
- Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery
- Oral Questions
- Written Questions
- Returns to Written Questions
- Replies to Opening Address
- Petitions
- Reports of Standing and Special Committees
- Reports of Committees on the Review of Bills
- Tabling of Documents
- Notices of Motion
- Notices of Motion for First Reading of Bills
- Motions
- First Reading of Bills
- Bill 20, Legal Registries Statutes Amendment Act
- Bill 28, An Act to Amend the Workers' Compensation Act, No. 2
- Second Reading of Bills
- Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
- Tabled Document 35-14(5), Social Agenda: A Draft for People of the Northwest Territories
- Bill 1, Human Rights Act
- Bill 22, An Act to Amend the Child and Family Services Act
- Bill 26, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 2, 2002-2003
- Committee Report 10-14(5), Report of the Standing Committee on Social Programs on Bill 1, Human Rights Act
- Report of Committee of the Whole
- Third Reading of Bills
- Bill 25, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 4, 2001-2002
- Bill 27, An Act to Amend the Elections Act, No. 2
- Orders of the Day
Item 22: Orders Of The Day
Item 22: Orders Of The Day
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The Speaker
Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Accordingly, this House stands adjourned until Wednesday, October 23, at 1:30 p.m.
-- ADJOURNMENT
The House adjourned at 6:00 p.m.