Thank you, Mr. Chair. As the Minister has stated, what the Department of Human Resources budget was decreased by, to reflect the transfer of those employees to Finance, the Department of Finance budget went up by the exact amount, so there is transparency there. It is shown throughout the movement from one budget to the other.
To provide a little bit more detail on the expenses that are going into the department, the increase to the Directorate is a reflection of the collective bargaining increases. That is the only increase that has gone in there. What the Minister was referring to, with the transfer this year, was it is simply a timing difference.
When the budgets are loaded for forced growth for the collective bargaining increases, they were loaded into the Department of Human Resources, so the Department of Human Resources then had to transfer the ‘15-16 collective bargaining increases to the Department of Finance, so the detail of the budget overall growth for the department is really only reflected in the collective bargaining money that we got through forced growth for the actual implementation and negotiations that we are going to have to do for the upcoming round. We do have $434,000 overall.
We do have the collective bargaining increases for year four which was stated, the $689,000. Of that, $268,000, which is what the Minister was referring to were collective bargaining increases for year ‘15-16 for the Department of Finance, those were transferred over. The only other true increase to the budget is we were awarded one position change, so there is a senior French languages human resources officer that we have hired this year to help us meet our commitment for the French language. Other than that there isn’t a huge increase to this budget and we do have, as previously mentioned, $358,000 that we have set aside for passive restraint, so overall the net effect is $688,000, but it truly just reflects the Collective Agreement increases for year four. The collective bargaining negotiation money that we got and the one position for the French languages senior human resources officer. Thank you.