News Release

FREDERICTON (GNB) – Service New Brunswick will invest about $142 million in delivering services in 2016-17.

Ed Doherty, minister responsible for Service New Brunswick, made this announcement today while tabling the corporation’s main estimates.

“We will continue to build on the success of Service New Brunswick in becoming a new, centralized common services organization,” Doherty said. “In the coming year, we will be taking further steps to improve how government works by identifying additional efficiencies, consolidating services and expanding our efforts in centralization. We will continue to provide quality services to the public while producing real savings for taxpayers.”

In 2015, Service New Brunswick became a new Crown corporation, absorbing the functions of the New Brunswick Internal Services Agency, the Department of Government Services and FacilicorpNB. Service New Brunswick is expected to produce annual savings of more than $42 million by 2020.

“By bringing common services together into one organization, we are streamlining and modernizing the way we do business,” Doherty said. “Our work at Service New Brunswick is a great example of how government can do things better, smarter and more efficiently.”

Service New Brunswick provides more than 300 services to the public as it works to create a world-class model for government-shared services.