Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, I mean, one particular concern that I've heard related to the way we budget for agency nurses is -- I think people on the front lines have a sense that there are strong attempts to limit the budget -- the regular budget for the NTHSSA so there's resistance to, for example, you know, adequate levels of staffing or putting new staffing positions in place because that would increase the budget that, you know, we're trying to keep under control and yet by not recognizing what is needed to keep the system sustainable, those costs are actually inevitable and they keep popping up in these sups which, you know, we have a very hard time refusing certainly, especially, you know, after the fact once it's been spent, but that way of budgeting creates these sort of perverse incentives to keep sort of overly squeezing our staffing models at the front end and incentivising health authorities to just sort of hire agency nurses when they realize that they need more people, which could be involved by a more sort of wholistic and sustainable staffing models that, you know, we plan ahead for and include in the main health authority budget.

So I'm wondering if -- a question to the Minister here. If these costs of agency nurses that come through the sups end up being fed back into the considerations when it comes to overall health authority budgeting that they get sort of counted so to speak, not as just sort of extra unexpected costs but as actually as fundamental costs necessary to running of the system and that that might lead to better staffing models in the first place, that would avoid us having to pay for these things after the fact. I know that's a convoluted question, but the question is is there a feedback loop given these millions of dollars of extra costs that are coming after the fact that will allow us to plan better staffing that would prevent these costs from happening in the future? Thank you, Mr. Chair.