Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have some of those documents in front of me here too. I have a document dated December 18th , when we
actually got the plan of the final report that we’re making decisions on. So, that’s my difficulty in the fact that we got it December 18th , but there was no
indication that it was coming into a supp into the new year, or there’s no discussion of it being added to our January discussions to get a briefing in January to talk about getting this put in the budget.
I don’t have the details, but I do believe we have, in the past, added this stuff to the budgets in a quick manner. We have meetings in January; we have meetings at the beginning of February; we have six weeks of session in February/March to deal with this type of stuff. If the Cabinet and the Executive deemed it as an exercise that had to be done as soon as possible, then we would have looked at it at that time. But for us to look at it in a supplementary in one of our last sessions, with limited time to review and discuss, and this is the
only place on the floor that we have it today to discuss this issue, I guess I’m having difficulties in the fact that we’re forced to either allow the process to move forward or maybe we just hold the whole thing to a grind and we don’t approve this and we let it go to the business plan process for the next Assembly.
I guess my concerns are how do we move forward when this type of stuff gets held back and we’re forced to make emergency decisions based on the floor of this House? Again, I guess I’m having difficulty with the fact of what happens if this goes forward if we don’t have this funding approved.