Thank you, Mr. Chair. So the process has been as such for at least 20 plus years of my time, and so this document here is how the department intends to spend its money, and it intends to spend its money by giving some of that money to the health authorities for them to deliver services. In doing that, we provide the health authorities with a target for which, you know, the money that we're planning to give them and what we want to give them the money for, then we request that they develop a budget, a detailed budget, that they submit to us by February 15th of every year. We do a review process of that budget at the same time as we're reviewing the budget and the budget is getting reviewed here in the House for the main estimates so that by the time the main estimates gets approved, which gives us permission to give the funding to the authorities, we also can then tie the two together and we have authority's detailed budget reconciled with the funding that we're planning to give them so we have the detail of how the actual money is getting spent. So hopefully that clears it up. But the idea is that the authority budgets that gets submitted are approved shortly after the main estimates are approved, both of which need to occur before April 1st of the year to comply with the Financial Administration Act. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Jeannie Mathison 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
February 13th, 2025
Jeannie Mathison
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