Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will try my best to be objective today. It all becomes difficult. I think we all recognize, and certainly the Standing Committee on Finance recognized the enormity of the problems associated with health, and the rising costs, and the demands that are currently being placed on the system.

However, the Standing Committee on Finance still fundamentally believes, that health services have to increase in the communities, not decrease. There is a tremendous, myself included, amount of feelings out there that, perhaps, some of the departmental plans have been done in isolation of regional and community input, and I am certainly talking from my own region that has a feeling of unease about the manner in which we are dealing with the fundamental issues.

I will not spend a lot of time on it today. We will deal with it probably in capital and future budgets. I am of the belief, as I said earlier, that this budget is six or seven months spent anyway.

We have two motions with respect to the Department of Health. One is in the value for money audit. The committee understands that the results of the value for money audit for the Department of Health will soon be concluded. However, we have not had the benefit of reviewing this document, and relating it to social requirements. It is our hope that it will be tabled at the current session of this Assembly, who knows, and will be reflected in the development of the 1993-94 Main Estimates.