Thank you, Madam Chair. Unfortunately, I may not have a fully satisfactory answer for the Member insofar as the simple reality is that, obviously, one can assume or one knows that an asset will come into play and will need to be budgeted for the year that the asset is completed or is in service. Obviously, one could assume that you would know that the hospital that was being built would come into service during this particular year. That said, there were uncertainties as to the exact timeline of the hospital and uncertainties as to the final total of the hospital, and so, again, while I can't speak to the internal budgeting that was happening in the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs, I can say that the uncertainties there were real and, in that sense, it wouldn't be uncommon for there to be some delay that may not have been included in the original budgets, that they would be appropriately part of a supplementary bill.

It is unfortunate that they weren't budgeted for internally so that we aren't coming at this stage of the matter, but the best I can do in the situation that I am in, quite closely on the heels of the election, is to have caught this fact when we did and to do what we could to take the steps that we could here and today and obviously, in the very first sitting in the Assembly, in order to go forward in a way that is fiscally responsible and that helps this department get itself back on track for the remainder of the fiscal year.