Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There's not a lot that I can add to this that hasn't already been provided, either in response to Mr. Menicoche or by Minister Roland just now. The programs are programs of the department that are application-based. They weren't special programs. The issue is one of vigilance. You are always going to find once in awhile an agency that will go out of business owing money. You can't ever have 100 percent certainty. We are fairly confident that procedures have been tightened up now so that the changes of it happening again are reduced. In terms of why this happened, I can't really say. I can say the person who was responsible for approving the payments is no longer with the department. The policies and procedures have been tightened and we will endeavour to make sure we see this happen as seldom as possible
Charles Dent on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on October 15th, 2004. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
October 14th, 2004
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