Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, the previous amount of $13 million is what the budget amount would have been. So back 2023-2024, likely you would have seen -- and I don't have it here or recall, but in 2023-2024 the actual budgeted amount, I believe, was significantly lower than what the actuals wound up being. You would see a change to revised if we brought a sup. In past years, we were, I know certainly in some years, able to cover internally increased costs in medical travel within the department. The last few years have seen a number of cost increases, not the least of which is an increased number of folks requiring medical travel, increased costs in flight costs. It's not an unsimilar story to what we may hear soon from when our friends in health and social services appear and speak to medical travel more broadly but the cost drivers that they are experiencing also impact this piece within the Department of Finance. So with -- you know, again, if there's a sup that needs to be brought to cover the cost, you would see it in revised but if not, you wouldn't, but -- you know, and, again, we have now at this point sought to increase the main estimates to reflect the fact that costs seem to be staying -- are higher than what were being budgeted and are staying higher. Thank you.
Caroline Wawzonek on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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