Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don't think there's a straightforward simple answer to that. There's a number of different things you have to factor in. Probably four minutes worth of things that you need to factor in here. So you need to look at -- you need to look at the capacity within the department of Education, Culture and Employment. If we are talking about ECE managing clinical staff, you know, we don't have that capacity at this point. The Member pointed out the fact that the department of health has a mandate to serve all residents, whereas ECE focuses on the schools. So there is an argument that perhaps we need to be having some -- we need to deliver services dedicated to students. All of that really is up for discussion right now as we redesign the government system of schools. But there are -- there's values to every approach. I think the bottom line is no matter who is running this right now, there aren't enough staff; there aren't enough speech language pathologists; there aren't enough people providing rehab services to provide the services we need regardless of who is administering the program. Thank you.
R.J. Simpson on Question 1315-19(2): Integrated Services Territorial Support Team
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Question 1315-19(2): Integrated Services Territorial Support Team
Oral Questions
February 7th, 2023
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