Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the chairman of SCOF and Mr. Patterson have already talked about the impact of SCOF not having all the information when reviewing the budget detail. This is one of the areas where I think it would have made a significant difference to what the committee might have reported to the House in its report on the main estimates if all of the information had been made available to us.

We were advised when we were going through the budgets that with health and hospital boards, there were going to be some significant cost savings; that in undertaking measures through using the nearest centre policy and the agreement with the Royal Alexandra Hospital, we were going to be saving significant dollars. Yet, when we see this supp come through it indicates that, in fact, the amount of money is not a savings in comparison to what had been expected.

Can the Minister advise, in the health and hospital boards task, what the proposed budget is for 1995-96?