We have provided this info as a response to lots of questions that the Member has raised. He is right; he has raised this before. This program is oversubscribed; it went way beyond its budget. We have one person in there and we are spending all the money that we have available in that budget and we are not able to take in new people unless we come with new money, which is the reason why we need to review this as we need to review the Nurse Practitioner Program and nursing programs. We need to look at all the demands on educational programs for health and social services staffing and we need to set our priorities. There are new areas that we haven’t been training, like home care programming and counselling programming and other things. This is something we need to look at as a Legislature and, as I stated earlier, I need to come and talk to the Standing Committee on Social Programs about what the demands are and how do we go forward within the limited resources we have. Thank you.
Sandy Lee on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 14th, 2011. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 13th, 2011
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