Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is to the Minister of Health and Social Services regarding her statement of February 16th about the Health and Social Services System Action Plan. There are two areas that I have concerns about.
On page 1776 of the unedited Hansard, where she states:
"I have been increasingly concerned with a number of problems that have been brought to my attention by the department, by health and social services boards, by members of the health and social services professional community and by Members of the Legislative Assembly."
She goes on and lists the different challenges that are out there on page 1776 at the bottom:
"In addition to those financial and administration issues, there are pressing concerns about the delivery of core health and social services programs for a number of reasons. Some of our health and social services board are having difficulty delivering all the core programs which they have been funded and some programs are not always being delivered to standard."
Then she goes on:
"I do not take those concerns lightly. As Minister, I cannot ignore concerns about the quality of service delivery for which I am ultimately accountable."
My question to the Minister is this, in light of those statements, could the Minister tell us exactly which programs are core programs that we have funded these different health boards for that were not carried out?