Clarification of comments
Comments in budget speech
Comments on
Concerns in District of Mount Pearl-Southlands
Did Premier get a commitment from the Prime Minister to increase the number of staffed child care spaces in this province
Does Minister agree with colleague from Mount Scio that it is almost impossible to find child care
Does Minister feel that rollout of the new wage grid plan is going very well
Does Minister Responsible for Women and Gender Equality think it acceptable that women are being forced to leave the work force because they cannot find child care
Conway Ottenheimer, H.,
2289
Haggie, J.,
2289
Does Minister still think his plan is working very well
How is the discovery for some early childhood educators that they will paid less on the province's new wage grid and not get a raise for at least three years going to help with recruitment and retention
How many childhood educators are being trained in Newfoundland and Labrador today
Is Minister going to wait for another human rights complaint before he orders an appropriate accommodation for these families
Is Minister saying that segregation, not inclusion, is the way forward on $10-a-day child care
Is Minister's solution to the child care crisis to insult operators and pay its staff less
Minister highlights actions to increase access to affordable child care
Some individuals charging much higher than norm
Urging government to develop a strategy in the short term that will allow daycares to employ child care workers that are either retirees, former teachers or other support workers that have the credentials to be grandfathered in and assist with the current shortage of early childhood care workers
Urging government to immediately address the lack of regulated child care facilities in the Bonavista area by including a child care operation in one of our health care facilities to ensure our health care professionals and physicians will not be missing work as a result of the inability to find child care
Urging government to immediately take the necessary action to ensure that accessible child care is as much available as it is affordable
Conway Ottenheimer, H.,
198,
1250–1251,
2014–2015,
2087–2088,
2297–2298
Haggie, J.,
2297,
2298
Petten, B.,
2296–2297
Was Minister misinformed or did he misinform the House
What does Minister suggest parents in rural Newfoundland and Labrador are supposed to do about child care
Conway Ottenheimer, H.,
2290
Haggie, J.,
2290
What has changed, given that government is requiring each operator to provide audited financial statement
What has government done to address the unique challenge of shift workers who often work 12-hour days
What is government doing to remove barriers for our health care workers and parents who wish to return to work
What is Minister doing to reverse the injustice of children thrown out of daycares due to lack of staff and inclusion workers
What is Minister doing to reverse the injustice to ensure parents of children with autism can avail of early childhood education
What is Premier going to do to clean up the mess, given that payday is tomorrow
What is the benefit of $10-a-day child care if you can't access it
What message does issue send to newcomers and parents of children with exceptionalities
What's the hang up, if government has had the wage grid report since October
When will we see enough staff to meet the demand for child care in our province
Where are the 6,000 spaces that government was going to create
Why are staff still waiting for the recruitment and retention incentive while operators are not being consulted
Why does Minister think it fair that Newfoundland daycare operators are going to be paid a lower rate than home-based centres
Why has government failed 86 per cent of the families in this province who are desperately looking for child care
Why is after-school care an afterthought for this government
Conway Ottenheimer, H.,
2290
Haggie, J.,
2290
Why is colleague continuing to blame operators for his failures
Why is Minister blaming child care operators in this province for his failures
Why is Premier ignoring 70 per cent of the provincial child care industry
Why is this Minister and government in denial about the child care crisis
Will Minister admit to the House and the province that we have a child care crisis in the province
Will Minister convene an urgent meeting with the operators' association and apologize
Will Minister make the necessary changes to the policy to ensure children with autism are not left behind
Will Minister stand and apologize to the operators he insulted last week
Will Premier and government admit that today's announcement with the Prime Minister was smoke and mirrors and without a single child care space created