The committee met at 3:35 p.m.

[B. D’Eith in the chair.]

Deliberations

B. D’Eith (Chair): I call the meeting of the Selecting Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services to order — Monday, December 11 — and move to go in camera. Do I have a motion?

K. Ryan-Lloyd (Deputy Clerk and Clerk of Committees): Tracy Redies has moved the motion.

Motion approved.

The committee continued in camera from 3:36 p.m. to 4:02 p.m.

[B. D’Eith in the chair.]

Committee Report to the House

STATUTORY OFFICERS BUDGET REPORT

B. D’Eith (Chair): So we’re back with the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services statutory officers budget report.

Mr. Deputy Chair, I believe you have some motions.

D. Ashton (Deputy Chair): The first motion that I have is: “The Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services approve and adopt the report entitled Report on the Statutory Office Budgets as presented/amended today and further, that the Committee authorize the Chair and Deputy Chair to work with committee staff to finalize any minor editorial changes to complete the supporting text.”

Motion approved.

D. Ashton (Deputy Chair): The second one I have is: “The Chair of the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services deposit a copy of the report entitled Report on the Statutory Office Budgets with the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly; and further, that upon resumption of the sittings of the House, or at the next following session, the Chair shall present the report to the Legislative Assembly at the earliest available opportunity.”

Motion approved.

B. D’Eith (Chair): Great. Are there any other motions?

K. Ryan-Lloyd (Clerk of Committees): Not at this time.

B. D’Eith (Chair): Okay. I want to take the opportunity to thank the committee for all their hard work not only on this but on all of the work that we’ve done since the session started. I appreciate all the due diligence and real effort that everyone has put in.

I also wanted to thank Kate and Ron for really making this process quite…. It was a really great process, where we could really get the information very clearly, and the drafting was very, very well done. So thank you very much.

[4:05 p.m.]

I also want to thank Hansard for all their work, making sure that all of these discussions are properly documented and that the staff were able to get very good information.

Kate, are there other matters that we need to address at this time?

K. Ryan-Lloyd (Clerk of Committees): Nothing on the agenda, Mr. Chair, although we haven’t lost sight of the fact that the committee had expressed interest in doing a debrief, on both this process and the budget process, at a forthcoming opportunity. But with the focus, essentially, of today’s agenda being consideration of this report, we wanted to try and compile a bit of background information to support those discussions. Perhaps, at your next meeting, in the new year, we can accommodate that as an agenda item.

B. D’Eith (Chair): That’d be great. Thank you very much.

I’d like to suggest, if I could, to the committee that while these matters are fresh in your mind, if you could jot down some ideas, in relation not only to the statutory offices’ budget deliberation but also on the finance report that we’ve made, in terms of perhaps making the process better and perhaps making some suggestions for next year.

I know there were a lot of really good ideas. It’d be great to get those down and try to take those into account for next year.

K. Ryan-Lloyd (Clerk of Committees): Yes, thank you very much.

D. Ashton (Deputy Chair): And, Mr. Chair, I just want to thank you very much — a very admirable job, Bob. A great job, actually.

B. D’Eith (Chair): Thanks, Dan, and thanks to everybody.

A motion to adjourn?

D. Ashton (Deputy Chair): Moved by Mitzi, seconded by Andrew.

Motion approved.

The committee adjourned at 4:06 p.m.