Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This is not an increase in costs as a result of switching the contractors. The breakdown is that the Charlotte Vehus shortfall is $547,000, Billy Moore is $303,000, for a total of $850,000 for both homes. It’s a 2012-13 this year. It’s not substantially higher than any other year preceding up until 2012-13.

I’ll just run through some numbers. There was $1.422 million in 2009-10 and then $1.38 million, $1.45 million in 2012-13 and those were the other. So it’s not all of a sudden jumped up by that amount.

What’s been happening is that the authority has funded this and has put themselves into a deficit with funding both of these homes in previous years. So the Billy Moore went from $683,000, $696,210 and then this year $686,000. So there’s not a substantial jump. It is just a steady growth and sometimes it goes up, sometimes it goes down.

But what’s been happening, like I indicated, the two contractors were doing this and each year the contracts were signed and then its deficit funded, essentially, and the Beaufort-Delta Health and Social Services Authority, as the House knows, goes into a deficit on an annual basis. This forms part of the deficit this year.

We’re trying to deal with the budgeting issues across the board on all health and social services

authorities. So this supplementary is $850,000 to just bring the budget up to where it should be.