Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As much as I am somewhat flabbergasted by the amount of money that we have to approve here, I can see that these costs are ones that we don’t have a heck of a lot of control over. I am somewhat concerned when I look at the information we were given on the utilization of the supplementary reserve. Of the over $6 million that the Health department got in their supplementary reserve fund, $2.3 million went to Stanton Hospital and $2.3 million went to the Beaufort-Delta Health and Social Services Authority as one-time funding. That concerns me. That is a pretty healthy amount of money. By giving these lump sum payments to these two authorities, it means that there was some $5 million which wasn’t available to the department to kind of offset some of the costs that we are being asked to approve in this supplementary appropriation. It is a bit of a shell game, I think. I am concerned about the huge costs that we have to bear with Health and Social Services. I doubt the Finance Minister has an explanation, but I would love to hear one if he has it. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Wendy Bisaro on Recorded Vote
In the Legislative Assembly on March 2nd, 2009. See this statement in context.
Recorded Vote
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
March 1st, 2009
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