Thank you, Madam Chair. Medical travel assistance is a benefit that comes out of the collective agreement but this particular item is not a result of changes in the collective agreement. Rather, it's due to just cost pressures that we've run into and that -- for example, and in particular, as a result of COVID-19, flight schedules were more limited. You know, costs resulting -- or the costs associated to flight were increased. And there was a requirement for more medical travel for folks who might have otherwise not needed to. For instance, on the dental services side where dental hygienists and dentists would have been able to travel to communities, that travel became much more limited over the course of the pandemic and therefore clients were having to fly out resulting in costs to the Department of Finance. Rather than perhaps costs that they might have had over in the Department of Health to fly the dentists in, we were seeing the costs over in this benefit provided to -- provided to them -- to staff. Sorry. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Caroline Wawzonek on Committee Motion 217-19(2): Tabled Document 578-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 3, 2021-2022 Carried
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Committee Motion 217-19(2): Tabled Document 578-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 3, 2021-2022 Carried
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