No.21/2005
House of Assembly
Monday, May 9th, 2005
(a) Statements by Members
(b) Statements by Ministers
(c) Oral Questions
(d) Presenting Reports by Standing and Special Committees
(e) Tabling of Documents
(f) Notices of Motion
(g) Answers to questions for which notice has been given
(h) Petitions
1. -- Address in Reply
2. -- Committee of Supply
(a) Resolution and Bill No. 4 Respecting the Granting of Main Supply to Her Majesty.
Second Reading Bills
3. -- Second Reading of a Bill -- "An Act To Amend The Municipal Elections Act". (Bill No. 1)
4. -- Second Reading of a Bill -- "An Act To Amend The Executive Council Act". (Bill No. 7)
5. -- Second Reading of a Bill -- "An Act To Amend The Income Tax Act, 2000". (Bill No. 8)
6. -- Second Reading of a Bill -- "An Act To Amend The Public Service Pensions Act, 1991, Teachers' Pensions Act And Uniformed Services Pensions Act, 1991". (Bill No. 9)
7. -- Second Reading of a Bill -- "An Act To Establish A Financial Services Appeal Board". (Bill No. 11)
8. -- Second Reading of a Bill -- "An Act To Repeal The Investment Contracts Act". (Bill No. 12)
9. -- Second Reading of a Bill -- "An Act To Amend The Services Charges Act". (Bill No. 10)
10. -- Second Reading of a Bill -- "An Act To Repeal The Literacy Development Council Act". (Bill No. 6)
11. -- Second Reading of a Bill -- "An Act To Amend The City Of Corner Brook Act, The City Of Mount Pearl Act, The Municipalities Act, 1999 And The St. John's Assessment Act". (Bill No. 15)
12. -- Second Reading of a Bill -- "An Act Respecting The Rooms Corporation". (Bill No. 17)
MOTIONS
1. -- THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND PRESIDENT OF TREASURY BOARD -- To Move that the House Resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole on Supply to Consider Certain Resolutions for the Granting of Supply to Her Majesty. (Bill No. 4)
2. -- THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND PRESIDENT OF TREASURY BOARD -- To Move that the House Resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole to Consider Certain Resolutions Respecting the Imposition of Taxes on Tobacco. (Bill No. 5)3. -- THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND PRESIDENT OF TREASURY BOARD -- To Move that the House Resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole to Consider Certain Resolutions Relating to the Advancing or Guaranteeing of Certain Loans made under the Loan and Guarantee Act, 1957". (Bill No. 14)
4. -- THE HONOURABLE THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE LEADER -- To ask leave to introduce a Bill entitled, "An Act Respecting The Management Of Government Information For The Province". (Bill No. 16)
5. -- THE HONOURABLE THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE LEADER -- To Move pursuant to Standing Order 11 that the House not adjourn at 5:30 o'clock p.m. on Monday, May 9th, 2005.
6. -- THE HONOURABLE THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE LEADER -- To Move pursuant to Standing Order 11 that the House not adjourn at 10:00 o'clock p.m. on Monday, May 9th, 2005.
QUESTION
5. -- MS. YVONNE JONES (Cartwright-L'Anse au Clair) - To ask the Honourable the Minister of Health and Community Services to lay on the Table of the House the following information:
(a) whether government plans to make the accreditation of mammography units mandatory in Newfoundland and Labrador, as the Federal Health Minister has urged and as Manitoba and New Brunswick are in the process of doing;
(b) why all units have not yet been accredited;(c) in lieu of accreditation, if there is a mechanism in place whereby standards can be set and adhered to;
(d) the locations of the accredited/unaccredited units;(e) the proportion of mammograms performed in the province at accredited units versus those performed at unaccredited units;
(f) whether statistics are available for the rates of cancer detection at accredited units versus unaccredited; and(g) whether unaccredited units have radiologists who meet the accreditation requirements of having read 480 mammograms annually and have completed 40 hours of continuing education.
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