Bob Bromley
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Page 10-7, Education, Culture and Employment, department summary, operations expenditure summary, we will defer until after the activity summary. Page 10-8, Education, Culture and Employment, department summary, information item, infrastructure investment summary.
Page 8-30, Health and Social Services, activity summary, community health programs, grants and contributions, contributions. Agreed? Ms. Bisaro.
Mr. Chairman, I am having a hard time with finding any horse sense in that. Mr. Chairman, obviously we have a continuing intake of students. We have continuing revolving people in our communities. Could the Minister match those up for me somehow?
Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Committee, we are on general comments. Department of Education, Culture and Employment. I have nobody else on my list. Anybody? Not seeing any, I will turn to the Minister for his response. Minister Lafferty.
Thank you. Just a comment there. I have nobody else on my list. Committee, I’ll remind you we’re on page 8-21, Health and Social Services, activity summary, health services programs, operations expenditure summary, $188.658 million. Agreed?
Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Next on my list is Mr. Abernethy.
Mr. Chairman, I would presume that the Minister’s earlier observations that we do need nurse practitioners and we will continue to push for increased use of them would enter into that review. Is the funding secure for the 2011-12 fiscal year? Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Next on my list is Mr. Abernethy.
Question has been called.
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We will defer further consideration of Health and Social Services until another time.
Thank you, Minister Lee. If I can please get the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses out, and thank you to the witnesses for being here today.
Before we move on to the next department we’re going to take a short break.
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Mr. Chairman, what is its current state, contrasted with the immediately previous state, of our support from this department through ECE for the training of nurse practitioners?