Thank you, Madam Chair. The bill is quite large, as supps go in this Assembly, and it may be a little, deceiving is the wrong word, of course, but in its inclusion is a very large number of carry-overs, both in cash value and in quantity, from the previous year, Madam Chair. Some $75 million of this is, in effect, for projects that this Assembly has already approved from the previous year or, potentially, even years. These projects are, of course, uncompleted and what the Assembly is doing here is simply reaffirming the money that was unspent from last year can continue to be spent this year to complete these projects.
But in that context, Madam Chair, it seems that the numbers of uncompleted projects is quite large. Committee's been provided with detail that itemizes these and, without doing a line-by-line count here, I think we're in the neighbourhood of perhaps well over a hundred and maybe even a couple hundred projects spread across our various departments.
Madam Chair, I wanted to ask the Minister about this aspect of the bill in general comments, just to see whether or not there is, you know, is this on the Minister's radar screen here? Why are we having to cope with this number of uncompleted projects from previous years? Is this a trend? Are we indeed experiencing a growth in our capacity, our inability, to finish the jobs that have been presented to the Assembly, and here we are having to sort of reaffirm or revoke the money, Madam Chair?