Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I wanted to continue my line of questions that I had from the health and social programs that was out of scope of that section because it's in scope here. And my questions were in regards to specialty services or access to services that are available in the south. And one of the things that we're seeing is that there's a fairly long wait time for different services. And so people are going on to either a waitlist for something that's available down south, or if they can't -- if it's something that is only available down south, they're going on a waitlist for down south. If it's something that is available here and they're on a really long waitlist, they're also pursuing it down south. So it's kind of -- it's two different streams there. And what I'm noticing is that if somebody has a referral for a specialty service and they are on a really long waitlist for down south and they choose to pay out of pocket for that service, they're able to jump the queue. My concern is that is that covered by out-of-territory services for residents? So are residents able to access services they're referred to out-of-territory through this funding pot here in order to gain access to specialty services that they need? Thank you.
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