Thank you, Madam Chair. So, again, Madam Chair, it's not new money, it's not unanticipated money. It's not unexpected money. There's no new money. There's no new debt. It's the costs of the road and it's the cost of incurring the expenses on the road. What was different was in terms of the timing of when the expenses are showing as having been incurred based on the periodic completion leading up to today, which was always the expected date. And it takes -- there is a lag, you know, there is a lag in terms of when invoice's received. I've come to discover that it's at least a month by the time an invoice is received to the time when it is necessarily reconciled at the Department of Finance. And so it does take some time, and on a major project like this, it takes even longer.
When the final year end was done, that is the point at which they were able to determine that, in fact, as those expenses were being incurred, they had gone over in this fiscal year.
We have to come back -- Madam Chair, this has gone through the auditor general's office. This is an accounting matter. It's one that we've been told is not abnormal; we're not going to be, you know, subject to any sorts of notes. But I do need to bring it back to the Assembly to explain to the Assembly why there needs to be this adjustment. That's what we're trying to do here. Thank you.