Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I mentioned, you know, I mean, I've had these discussions on the floor of the House so I'm not denying that, you know, there has been many concerns brought forward. I know that there will -- you know, that the department is doing work. I know that there was an employee satisfaction engagement done and the results of that will -- you know, will help us guide some of the work. And, you know, we've heard from the Members. We've met -- you know, we've met with some of the Members and some people that are advocating for some of these changes. And, you know, that is one area like I keep staying to my staff that I just want to be able to fix this, you know. And just like everybody else, I want to -- you know, I want people to go to work and be supported. I want people to go to work and feel like they -- you know, that they're -- they want to be there. And so how we get there, it's going to take -- you know, it's not going to happen overnight because this issue didn't happen overnight. It's many years, you know. And I mean, it didn't help us with, you know, the COVID crisis in our health care system across Canada. Not even across Canada, across the world. And so there's many areas that we're looking at to try and increase support to staff, to increase staffing. You know, one of the other Members have raised, you know, international educated nurses. You know, my colleague from ECE, we will be meeting with CAN to look at different ways on how we can support -- you know, what's needed to support that, you know, how can we work -- you know, so there are many things on top of all of the other things in health that we're trying to achieve for residents. And I understand like, we are -- we need good staff and we need happy staff to be able to provide those programs to our residents. So I'm not sitting here going to say that everything's perfect, and I know things need to be done. And we've got some plans and we've heard some recommendations. And how we get there, I think it's going to take a little bit of everything. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Lesa Semmler on Committee Motion 8-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Administrative and Support Services - Health and Social Services, Carried
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Committee Motion 8-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Administrative and Support Services - Health and Social Services, Carried
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