Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On this page is a detail entitled authority/board administration costs with an estimate of $14.743 million for the coming year. I wanted to see if the Minister could provide a bit of detail. Of that $14.743 million, how much of that is regulated to the costs of the authority itself and how much to the board? Is there some kind of distinction you can give us here or are we just dealing with words? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We spend, on average, around five percent on administration costs. If the Member is asking a specific cost that we spend on board trustees, I don't have that level of detail, but we could commit to get that. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Page 6-24.

Page 6-25, program delivery support, grants and contributions, contributions $17.313 million.

Page 6-26, program delivery support, active positions.

Page 6-27, program delivery support, active positions.

Page 6-28.

Page 6-29, health services programs, operations expenditure summary, $135.3 million.

Page 6-30.

Page 6-31, health services programs, grants and contributions, grants, total grants, $25,000. Mr. Braden.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, if I may, I would like to go into an area in the telehealth program and I don't know if I am on the right page for that or not. I hope I am at least in the neighbourhood, so I can

ask about some of the telehealth programming. I guess what I am looking at here, Mr. Chairman, is some of the forecasts for activity in the telehealth area. I think it's projected that in the 2003-04 fiscal year, the 2005-06 fiscal year, that we are only projecting a 10 percent increase in the number of files or cases where telehealth is applied. That seems to be a very modest increment, Mr. Chairman. In fact, it would only be an increase of about 15 or 20 new files that are added to the telehealth program. It just struck me as being very, very slow or small over a three-year period. We have been really quite excited about telehealth and the changes that it could make, but I don't know if they are coming as quickly as I might have been led to believe. Can the Minister help me out there? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman this is an area that we think, well, we know, has tremendous potential. As I indicated in this House last week, we have spent the first few years on focusing almost exclusively on setting up the technology and it's become clear that we had, in fact, needed as well to look at the program side. The technology was there but we had not done enough work to make sure that the staff sees this opportunity for what it is; an opportunity to have a better service for the people and to allow better service for people in the communities.

We, in fact, have put in place a program champion on the telehealth side whose function is going to be not only to make sure that the technical work continues, but that the work is done, to make sure that this becomes a part of the corporate culture of Health and Social Services with all the health professionals, doctors, nurses, CHRs and everybody else, that can make use of this service. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Braden.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It's a little disappointing to hear that we haven't got the uptake, if you will, internally on what this service could do. I can understand that it's one of those changes within an organization that may take time. I would leave on record some comment that the growth in how our telehealth system is being used is quite slow and if there are ways that the department can find to expand this, it would certainly keep up with my expectations. I appreciate the explanations and that is all the questions that I have on this page.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. We are on page 6-31, health services programs, grants and contributions, grants, total grants, $25,000. Contributions, total contributions, $83.655 million, total grants and contributions, $83.680 million.