Thank you, Mr. Roland. Mr. Ramsay.
Debates of Feb. 22nd, 2006
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Committee Motion 26-15(4): Recommendation To Move The Contract Registry From Iti To Fmbs, Carried
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Committee Motion 26-15(4): Recommendation To Move The Contract Registry From Iti To Fmbs, Carried
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Committee Motion 26-15(4): Recommendation To Move The Contract Registry From Iti To Fmbs, Carried
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The Chair Calvin Pokiak
Thank you. Page 2-75, activity summary, Audit Bureau, operations expenditure summary, $1.259 million.
Committee Motion 26-15(4): Recommendation To Move The Contract Registry From Iti To Fmbs, Carried
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Calvin Pokiak
Page 2-76, 2-77, information item, Audit Bureau, active positions. Mr. Hawkins.
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Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On a number of occasions, I've had the pleasure of asking questions on the Audit Bureau regarding staffing levels. The good Minister has offered some answers, but they've been very satisfactory. I'm looking forward to the continuation of that theme with some good answers. What is the present staffing level of the Audit Bureau? Even though we have hedged 12 funded positions, what is on average the last staffing level for that bureau? Thank you.
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Floyd Roland Inuvik Boot Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as the Members know, from time to time when you print documents or prepare briefing notes, it fluctuates from time to time, but as of yesterday I'm informed we've got a 50 percent vacancy, six positions vacant. Thank you.
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Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre
Thank you. Would that be on average for the last year, or is there some prices that we're not aware of that's happened in the last little while? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Floyd Roland Inuvik Boot Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That is higher than we would normally find. We have difficulties or had difficulties mainly in our senior staff positions, but this time we also have some in the assistant auditor positions, as well. Thank you.
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Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate that, Mr. Minister. Can you give me some detail as in how we're going to correct this problem? As I seem to remember, I've been bringing attention to this problem to our Assembly now for over a year. Obviously, not every day or every session we sit, but it's been raised a number of times by me. Still 50 percent is pretty low. Is there anything we can do, or what is the Minister doing, or the staff doing, to ensure that we get a full complement? I think my colleague Mr. Ramsay just talked about making sure audits get done and get done in a proper priority and whatnot. I know, Mr. Minister, you expressed taking up the slack through contracted services, which is always a concern of mine in a process where we don't have the staff to do the work. So what are we doing to pick up the slack in the sense of hiring staff? I'm not talking about the work at this moment. So filling vacancies, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.
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Floyd Roland Inuvik Boot Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as I stated earlier to another Member's question in a similar area, with the existing systems we have in place and pay levels and so on, it's difficult to fill those positions. We continue to aggressively advertise these positions to try to get people recruited to them. Beyond that, we're looking at doing some training from within the organization to try to have people move up to these positions. Thank you.
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The Chair Calvin Pokiak
Thank you, Mr. Roland. Mr. Hawkins. Thank you. Page 2-76, 2-77, information item, Audit Bureau.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Calvin Pokiak
Now can the Members turn to Main Estimates 2006-2007, Volume II, 2-7 under FMBS? Mr. Ramsay.
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David Ramsay Kam Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm just wondering, given the substantial costs of the new FIS replacement review, it's a bit of a concern of mine that it seems to be getting pushed back. I'm just wondering if the Minister could let us know why the FIS program isn't advancing as he had originally told us it would. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Floyd Roland Inuvik Boot Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, we did back this off for a year for a number of reasons; one being our organizational capacity, as well as coming up with the right plan to move forward with. So we've re-established the $500,000 that we were initially going to spend in 2005-06 to 2006-07, and we are now in the position where we think we have the majority of work for systems selection and are preparing to move down that path for an actual selection and trying to come up with the right equipment. Thank you.
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