Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, over the last five years this is the second lowest amount of supps if you look at the list that we gave you, including the $15 million that was already apportioned out. I think ‘04-05 was probably the year that was slightly lower. Every other year was significantly higher.
I take the Member’s comments. We’ve had this discussion about the process and it’s not surprises so much as we targeted areas where we know that there’s costs we may not control, and rather than build in estimates into the budget, which can be imprecise, the direction has been to departments to in those areas where, like some of the hospital health costs come back when you’ve spent the money, or as you’ll notice in some of the information that we’ve given you there is some significant cost increases from some of the out-of-territory suppliers.
We’re always interested, this is a new process where we took $15 million and carved it up among the departments. We would like to be as precise as possible, as well, and we’re very interested in working with committee to figure out what’s the best way to be as accurate as possible in this area. Keeping in mind all the years that I have been around, even before we came in government there always seemed to be these types of costs in government. Thank you.