Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I wish there would have been the ability to give more of an update back when we were doing the main estimates as well. I think we all did. But it was really a time of significant transition and flux with COVID-19 at that time so it was difficult to pin down exactly the timing or the amounts. So this is before us now.
With respect to more generally what's happening, there are efforts here to reflect a transition. That transition is not only out of COVID but into hopefully better system capacity given the impacts of COVID over the last two years and given, likely, to be some ongoing impacts.
There are still, you know, indicators that there's consistently higher demands on public care services, higher demands on beds day-to-day, and that those that are there are there for particular periods of time. So they're able to track those things. So some of this reflects that.
There are still questions being called in and asked and the need to deliver ongoing vaccine services and anticipated, as vaccines become available for youth, that that will continue, as boosters are required that that will continue. And again that, you know, there's a view to what can be done to transition successfully into, again, better services longer term, you know, utilizing the phone capacity, utilizing the public health services that we have now for testing for vaccinations.
So again, it sort of reflects truly a transition from just what was focused almost solely or exclusively on COVID-19 to being focused on providing care in the context of long-term realities of COVID-19. Thank you, Madam Chair.