Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a couple in other areas and I'd like to get some response from the Minister, but maybe I'll start where my colleague left off with the motor vehicles registry office and the fact that we've now taken this service back from the private sector. Presumably, I guess the business case wasn't making itself for the private operator who was operating the service. I know the department has sort of billed this as a cost-neutral exercise, so that the additional fees that were being paid on top of the registration fee that I would go in and pay, the mark-up that was being collected by the private operator is now going to be collected or saved, that in fact will pay for the staff in order to carry out this service. That may have been a very convoluted and complicated way of explaining it, Mr. Chairman. I hope that the Minister understood what I'm talking about. I'd like to get some assurance from the Minister that the level of service that our constituents were receiving at the registries office isn't going to somehow be diminished now that we've taken this out of the hands of the private sector, and maybe he could speak to that.
Brendan Bell on Standing Committee On Governance And Economic Development Comments
In the Legislative Assembly on February 24th, 2003. See this statement in context.
general Comments
Standing Committee On Governance And Economic Development Comments
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 23rd, 2003
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