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Friday 04 November 2016 DRAFT HANSARD EIGHTH DAY ----------------------------------- Friday 04 November 2016 DRAFT HANSARD ----------------------------------- SUBJECT: PAGE NO: QUESTIONS ............................................................................................................................ 1 Teachers’ Salaries and Entitlements ........................................................................................ 1 Teachers Leave Fares ................................................................................................................ 4 Pomio Wants SABL Deal Review ........................................................................................... 5 No Returns for Tuna Provinces ................................................................................................ 8 Prices of Essential Services .................................................................................................... 11 Considering Business Position with Cost ............................................................................. 13 Legality of Nomination Fee .................................................................................................... 13 Litigants Certificate of Judgement ......................................................................................... 16 GRIEVANCE DEBATE ........................................................................................................ 18 ADJOURNMENT .................................................................................................................. 37 0 EIGHTH DAY Friday 04 November 2016 The Acting Speaker (Mr Aide Ganasi) took the Chair at 10 a.m. There being no quorum present, Mr Deputy Speaker stated that he would resume the Chair after the ringing of the Bells. Sitting Suspended. The Deputy Speaker again took the Chair at 10:45 a.m, and invited the Member for Kabum, Honourable Bob Dadae to say Prayers: “Our Heavenly Father God all Mighty, you are mighty and everlasting, you Holy and perfect, father we thank you, for the pray that you have accorded us to be in this Parliament to represent over 7 million people of Papua New Guinea, we thank you for continues protection and guidance to this term of Parliament, Father today we pray that you will give us wisdom and understanding to help us to deliberate policies that concerns of our Nations, Father this day to we pray and make a special prayer point to our Governor General which is in the hospital at Brisbane, father we join our hands as to all our Christians throughout the nations to pray for his recovery, Lord oh Mighty we also pray for the Budget that will be debated next Tuesday, that father to your wisdom and guidance that the Budget may be properly debated and passed to leaders, 2017 financial year, we thank you oh god for this week, and thank you that you guide us and protect us over the weekend, as we come back to resume on Tuesday next week, we give ourselves what is Souls on spirit in your hand and assure your leadership and guidance, and we pray, Amen! QUESTIONS Teachers’ Salaries and Entitlements Mr MAI DOP – Thank you, Mr Acting Speaker, for recognising the people of Jimi. My questions are directed to the Minister for Education. The Parliamentary Referral Committee on Education presented its findings and recommendation of teachers’ salaries and entitlements to Parliament on 26 August 2014, Parliament endorsed all thirteen recommendations of the committee and directed the Education department to implement the recommendations within three months. Attached in the working 1 committee was chaired by TSC Chairman, Mr Baran Suri, was established and a detailed scope of work and implementation. A schedule was prepared and submitted to the Cabinet. In its decision NO. 63, 2015 date 24 March 2015, the Cabinet approved a total of K26 million for the implementation of the PRCE Report also known as the Ganim Report to be rolled out over five years from 2014 to 2019 totalling K7.86 million was for the phase one implementation but these funding has not been forthcoming. The working committee resubmitted for K7.8 million in the 2015 Budget and again this was knocked out. As the Chairman of PRCE it is concerned about the 56 000 teachers in the country will hold the O’Neill-Dion Government liable if nothing seems to be happening in addressing teacher’s issues in the country who are the key drivers of Free-Education Policy of this Government. 02/08 My questions are; (1) Can the Minister update this honourable House and the people of this Nation especially the 56 000 teachers in the country on the process of work undertaken by the Education Department on the Working Committee? (2) How will the Department approve the K7.8 million for the phrase one implementation of PRCE report now that it was missed out again in the 2017 Budget? (3) How can this Government assure the 56 000 teachers that it cares are their well-being and is addressing their issues through implementation of the Ganim Report? Thank you, Mr Acting Speaker. Mr NICK KUMAN – Thank you, Mr Acting Speaker and thank you Member for Jimi for these serious of questions. Let me answer the last one first, as a result of the Parliamentary Committees Report most of the recommendations contained in that report that are approved by the parliament are being implemented and I will give a detailed response to you and also inform the Parliament next week, if we continue to sit next week. But a brief update of what has happened so far in regard to the last question is that the well-being of teachers and obviously you are right by saying that they are the drivers of the future of this country by educating our young children right throughout the country. As much as every partner in development in this country teachers are one of the well paid in the country. If you look at the remunerations that is being accorded to the teachers in the country they are one of the well-paid public servants in this country and I also agree that we got well over 56 2 000 teachers right throughout the country and they have done an excellent job every year in very difficult conditions in this country. Secondly, we just completed PNGTA and the TSC with the Department of Personnel Management that completed the negotiation on the salary entitlements and conditions not long ago. It is awaiting the Government to make a decision throughout the country the overall quantum of pay raise throughout the country and that is the only thing that we are awaiting. Because the agreement between TSC and PNGTA left in April this year it is mandatory for the employer, the Department of Education and Personnel Management to go into negotiation which was completed about a month ago. Question two, is relation to the updates. Let me start by the payroll system, yes we are under the Department of Finance ALESCO System and PNG Teachers are under the same payroll and you would note that not long ago we launched the ALESCO System in Enga in which the teachers can have those information available in their provincial headquarters they do not need to come to Port Moresby and one advantage out of that is that by using their smartphones they can be able to access the ALESCO Payroll System and be able to get the details of their salaries and other information that is available. 03/08 The appointment or establishment of Teachers Service Commission representative in the provinces is one of the main issues that we continuously are faced with. Teachers throughout the country come to Port Moresby and enquire about their pay, leave entitlements and all kinds of things, we use to see long queues at Fincorp. With those recommendations, we need to really look at how best we can serve the teacher’s right throughout the country and one is to must decentralise the TSC or the Teachers Service Commission offices right throughout the country. So in other words we are delegating all those responsibility to each and every provincial government in this country. We will also make sure that the functions of TSC will be decentralised. Leave fares, appointments and et cetera all these things will be done at the provincial level and we will only approve them and process them at the national level. So far we have got two provinces that have been established, we have Enga, Chimbu and we are currently working on the one in Morobe, then we will eventually make sure that all these TSC offices will be established right throughout the country so that the teachers no longer will come to Port Moresby, That is one step we need to take to ensure that teachers are in the provinces and they do not need to come to Port Moresby. 3 The next issue is that in as far as Leave fares are concerned again these money have been granted straight to the provincial Government. The Provincial Governments manage the Teachers’ Salaries. The only problem that we have is when the teacher decides when he wants to go for leave. The cut off month is end of April every year so if they make an application around mid of April they do not go on leave the next year because the department has to process that through the normal budget process in order for them to take that leave the next financial year when it will be available to them. But there are other entitlements they are entitled to except the teacher has the responsibility to apply for leave before April, beginning of the academic year. These are some of the problems that we are continuously being faced with. So when the appropriations are made, the ones who apply for leave in advance their moneys are available
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