Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I haven't ever said that we had cost overruns at the North Slave Correctional Centre. The department didn't seek supplementary funding for the operations. There will have been some money that would have been allocated from one resource to another, whether it was permanent employees to overtime, or permanent employees to casual, it would have been handled through the normal process. The overrun that has been referred to isn't something that we have characterized as an overrun. We haven't come to this House and sought supplementary appropriation for it. The department will be very close to its budget, the allotment that was provided by this House last year. At this point, I think there is a good likelihood that we will be within budget, although, as I said, it will be very close. Thank you.
Charles Dent on Question 525-15(3): Cost Overruns At The North Slave Correctional Centre
In the Legislative Assembly on March 2nd, 2005. See this statement in context.
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Item 6: Oral Questions
March 1st, 2005
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