David Ramsay

Does committee agree that Bill 9 is ready for third reading?

Before we go to the schedule, the preamble and the clauses, we will go to the detail first. So if I could draw your attention, please, to page 5, Financial Management Board Secretariat, operations expenditures, Financial Management Board Secretariat, not previously authorized, government accounting $10.395 million. Mr. Braden.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to use my Member’s statement today to talk about staffing concerns of nurses which have been brought to my attention. Staffing has, and continues to be, an issue in our health care system. We have had numerous discussions about the cost, and the impact, and the reliance on agency nurses and what that impact is having on our existing staff and the overall health care budgets at Stanton and the other health authorities.

I have a very difficult time understanding why I have to stand here again today raising issues on behalf of staff. It is not just a short...

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Total supplementary appropriation, $13.486 million.

Clause 2.

Thank you, Minister Roland, and thank you, committee. Before we deal with the preamble of the clauses, we will go to general comments.

Page 7.

Thank you, committee. Total department, $3.091 million.

Thank you, committee. Before we consider the clause by clause, there are two clauses, we will defer that and to go the schedule. It’s on page 3. We will deal with the schedule first. That’s the debts written off, total $308,305.95.