Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to follow up on my colleague Ms. Bisaro’s questions. Again, we have a supplementary appropriation before the House where we continue to pour money into an issue and a situation that we know exists. We‘ve been talking about this for I don’t know how long. The program review office was to have a look at it, review it. We need to get a handle on this medical travel issue and if we’re not funding it appropriately, then we’ve got to tell ourselves that and start finding the money to fund it appropriately.

I agree with Ms. Bisaro; there’s no accountability when a government can just come to the Members as it sees fit and just approve millions of dollars for a program that doesn’t come under any scrutiny just because it happens to be Health and Social Services and this sacred department that nobody is supposed to ask any questions about because it’s the health and well-being of the public. We shouldn’t go there, we’re looking after people. Just because we’re doing that, shouldn’t stop us from asking questions about where is the accountability, where is the transparency and who is responsible for managing these budgets when year in and year out budgets are brought to this House and are approved by Members of this House that are woefully inadequate.

I just wanted to get that out there again, Mr. Chairman, that that is not appropriate. It’s not appropriate for any government to knowingly be doing that. It shouldn’t happen and we just continually are allowed to operate like that and it just doesn’t make much sense to me.

Again, managing, you know, if you put yourself in the position of manager that’s managing under that regime, do you think you’re going to care if you’re over budget? Do you think you’re going to care if you approve something you shouldn’t approve? Do you think you’re going to care? The sky is the limit. What we have to do again is fund the operations appropriately and manage within those confines, not continually come back to this House time and time again for more money. It’s getting old, Mr. Chairman. We can continue, continue and continue to talk about it, but at some point in time somebody is going to have to start making some decisions across the way there and get us to a point where we’re approving real, accurate budgets for the Department of Health and Social Services. Today we’re not, as evidenced by this supp again. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.