Thank you very much, Madam Chair. With respect to supp number one, I kind of make the same observations as my honourable colleague for Great Slave, and that is for me I am happy that our government is going to prepare for the pipeline, but my concern here is that perhaps we are branching in the wrong direction because some of these things in this appropriation looks like each department wants to set up their own pipeline readiness office, and that is not something that I am prepared to endorse. I think the proposal by RWED is the one strength that we could go forward with, and I'd like to see that be kind of the overall pipeline...our pipeline readiness office as opposed to having one person in Finance, one person in ECE and one person in MACA because that is the kind of thing we have been speaking about in the House and that is let's have a coordinated effort, and get all our departments working together for the benefit of the people, and this is just not the way it is turning out at first face. But, I think we are in the right direction. I think with more consultation with Regular Members, and as our pipeline committee meets more often, we will provide some coordinated effort for the benefit and strive toward some of the things that we are heading towards, and of course the social aspects of the pipeline readiness and the development is key. I am not too sure of all these positions that are in the supp. Research has indicted it looks like 13.5 PYs. I will be asking more questions on that later, but at first face it looks like 13.5 PYs are dedicated towards the pipeline and being ready for it. It is probably not something that I am really looking at right now, and that is to grow our bureaucracy more. Some of them are necessary, but we will point it out as we go into line by line as we deliberate the supp here. Perhaps the Minister can detail for me if it is true in the overall supp there are 13.5 persons indicated in there. That is some of the things that kind of jumped out to me. Otherwise, I think this supp looks like a huge amount, but I understand a lot of it is lapsed contributions from last year that they are just restating. Perhaps the Minister can speak to that as well, Madam Chair.
Kevin A. Menicoche on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Others Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on June 1st, 2004. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Others Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Others Matters
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