Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, so that -- yes, that also is for anticipated shortfall at the NTHSSA. As noted, it was for frontline nurses. It is for agency nurse expenditures. So this is in situations where there's an ongoing shortage. Notwithstanding efforts for health care recruitment, there do continue to be a reliance and a necessity to bring up nurses to cover urgent positions. And with the nationwide shortage that's ongoing, again, as I said, notwithstanding some of the other efforts, some of which are reflected here in terms of other areas of supplementary appropriations, agency nurses are one way to ensure that there is a person in a position, and that has with -- with the situation of labour market shortages, there's been a reliance on agency nurses and not at a -- not enough money to fund that. So in order to keep those services available, that's what is driving the increase in these costs and expenses. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Caroline Wawzonek on Committee Motion 385-19(2): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 881-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 3, 2022-2023, Carried
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Committee Motion 385-19(2): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 881-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 3, 2022-2023, Carried
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