Thank you, Minister. I think the self-service system is more than just pay. I think that’s the only time I’ve heard anything positive said about it: that it’s easy and it’s timely for shift workers to get their pay. There are all kinds of other problems with the system that can’t pick up a person who works through a holiday without that person having to enter into the system and so on.

Also, within the management of the GNWT, unless you have another backup system — a pack of paper system, which is what we had already before we spent all this money on this system — you really can’t keep track of your employees unless you keep going back into the system. It’s time-consuming and not easy to manage. I’m not really seeing this system improve, but I’m not working with it now, either.

From what I hear from GNWT employees, this system is not good. It’s another one of the things, I think, where the government has committed to spending a tremendous amount of money on a system that wasn’t necessary. We have a whole bunch of things like that that have happened in the government, such as TSC and amalgamation of Human Resources — period.

In any event, I want to go on to another line. The Department of Human Resources is providing support for HR planning along the lines of what the Member for Kam Lake was talking about. Specifically, I want to ask the department how many departments in the GNWT actually have comprehensive human resource plans.