The Auditor General has released her annual report for the year ending last March, and she’s not thrilled with the action taken on recommendations from previous reports.

Denise Hanrahan noted that after three years, less than 39 per cent of recommendations were fully implemented, and over 25 per cent had no meaningful action taken at all.

Finance Minister Siobhan Coady agrees that government has to be better in following through on the AG’s recommendations.

Hanrahan noted that the English School District has only partially implemented recommendations on the Healthy Eating In Schools Program, and that the Department of Health and Community Services has only partially implemented a recommendation to continue to develop an action plan to bring health indicators in line with the Canadian average by 2025.

Hanrahan also wants to see implementation of the Muskrat Falls Rate Mitigation Plan as soon as possible as it will have a significant impact on the province’s finances. Coady says that will happen once the hydro project is fully sanctioned as testing of the LIL is ongoing.