Thank you, Madam Chair. I am just following up to that. If I was a business owner and I had spent a substantial amount of money like $8 million in one program area, and that is PeopleSoft, over the past 10 years and I was getting the service or the delivery of the program wasn't what I thought it would be and maybe some things had happened in the past -- maybe my employees tinkered with it too much or did something to it -- I would want to get a third party, somebody to come in and tell me what has been happening with my investment of $8 million. I am wondering if the Minister has ever gone out and got a thorough analysis of what exactly has gone wrong with PeopleSoft. If he hasn't, I would suggest that he does that. Has the Minister and the government ever involved the Audit Bureau in taking a look at getting into the fine details of what exactly happened? I think the Audit Bureau would be a good place to start. If you spent $8 million and you don't get the product that it was intended for, well, then you have a problem. I think somebody, like I said, Madam Chair, should be responsible. Somebody should have to answer questions. If I was a business owner, again, and if I spent $8 million and somebody went in and tinkered with my program and caused me to spend more millions of dollars, I would want to know what happened, who it was and when it happened. Do you know what? There would be repercussions because of what happened. In this instance, we don't seem to be there. We just continue to spend money and we don't go back. I really do think we need to go back and find out what happened so the mistakes of the past aren't repeated and there is proper protocol when somebody is going in there and chopping up a program that we spent millions of dollars on, Madam Chair.
David Ramsay on Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on August 20th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
August 19th, 2007
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