Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I want to be clear. There seems to be confusion around this, and there -- so within this announcement, I guess what happened was that there is COVID funding that is ending at the end of this fiscal year but there is no layoffs in the NTHSSA as a result of this sunsetting funding. It's important to understand that many positions that were added in this -- with this funding were never -- we were never able to staff them, so we were using what we used as casuals. We used float. We used relief workers in a lot of these positions to make sure that these extra positions were filled. And so the staffing impacts associated with this COVID funding has not -- you know, there hasn't been -- we're not saying any layoffs or anything like that. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Lesa Semmler on Question 57-20(1): Healthcare Staffing Impacts
In the Legislative Assembly on February 20th, 2024. See this statement in context.
Question 57-20(1): Healthcare Staffing Impacts
Oral Questions
February 20th, 2024
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