The Auditor General took the former PC government to task for problems with the Disaster Recovery Program's set-up in his report.

The new NDP government was more than willing to pile on.

Auditor General Merwan Saher says the Department of Municipal Affairs may have been right to take the program back in-house from the contractor it had hired, the timing was not.  The government workers who were tasked with bring the program back and making the proper changing and implementing a new IT system had their hands full with the 2013 flood disaster.

The NDP's Municipal Affairs Minister, Danielle Larivee says the PC's shouldn't have contracted out the service.

"The government chose to cut nearly 200 front line staff who administered Disaster Recovery Programs on behalf of Albertans, and then they paid an external service provider $30-million to administer Disaster Assistance on their behalf, essentially, instead of saving money they spent it on a service they could have delivered themselves," Larivee says.

Minister Larivee says since being elected they've made great progress in making a more efficient and effective program with a move to a case worker model and improvements in the information technology system.