That’s great. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. General comments. Is committee prepared to go into detail?

Detail it is. Committee, we’re going to defer 6-2. I’d like to turn your attention to 6-4, Health and Social Services, activity summary, health services programs, infrastructure investment summary, infrastructure investments, $58.426 million. Does committee agree?

Thank you, committee. Page 6-7, Health and Social Services, activity summary, community programs, infrastructure investment summary, infrastructure investments, $3.462 million. Does committee agree?

Thank you. I’d like to have people turn to the department summary that’s on page 6-2. Health and Social Services, department summary, infrastructure investment summary, infrastructure investments, $61.888 million. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I don’t see any item for the Aven facility. I thought we were going to support some kind of planning study for that infrastructure. Could I maybe get an update on where we’re at on that? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Beaulieu.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The information and our discussions with Avens have been this year. I think that in response to Ms. Bisaro, we’re not going to take Avens and move it up ahead of everyone else. We’re planning on taking Avens and looking at Avens within the overall picture as part of the continuum of care for seniors. So this is what we’re planning on doing.

Now, the fact that Avens is not in the planning study stage at this point, perhaps I can get Mr. Heath to give the Member a bit of a timeline on when we’re expecting that specific item to go into the capital plan.

Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. Mr. Heath.

Thank you, Mr. Heath. Mr. Bromley.

Is that for planning or is that for actual construction of the infrastructure? Thanks.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. For that we’ll go to Mr. Heath.

I just want to throw out, too, my concerns on Stanton. I’m not quite as easygoing as Ms. Bisaro. A few years from now to start, you know, this is long overdue. It’s another one that’s been on the books for me now for seven years and I think we are starting to move forward rather than backwards as we did for a good part of those seven years, but now we’ve been planning for a number of years. The very modest amount in this year’s budget is pretty insignificant to the cost that we’re talking about for the Stanton Territorial.

So I’m expecting to see a substantive proposal for funding brought forward by the Minister for the following fiscal year, because this one I’m very disappointed that there’s not considerably more in the plan for this year and that we’re again choosing to spend our capital dollars on new projects that certainly don’t address the priorities that we have. Thank you.

Thanks for that additional information. I’m sure Mr. Heath has a target date, but I can assure him that that target date for me, over the last seven years, there’s been quite a change in starting dates. Most recently was that we would be hearing the cost estimate for this project laid out in detail in September and here we are almost to November. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. I’ll take that as a comment. Committee, we’re on 6-2, Health and Social Services, department summary, infrastructure investment

summary, infrastructure investments, $61.888 million. Does committee agree?

Is committee agreed we’ve given consideration and concluded the Department of Health and Social Services?