Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Minister Abernethy. Thank you, Mr. Elkin and Ms. DeLancey. I’ll ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses from the Chamber.

Does committee agree that we’ve concluded the Department of Health and Social Services?

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. I would like to ask the Minister if he would like to bring witnesses into the Chamber.

Do you have a response to that? Okay, thank you. Health and Social Services, community health programs, infrastructure investments, $16.343 million.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Miltenberger.

Question has been called. Motion is carried.

---Carried

Tabled Document 281-17(5) is now ready for consideration in formal session through the form of an appropriation bill.

Does committee agree, then, that we’ll now proceed to Tabled Document 325-17(5), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 3, 2015-2016?

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Kalgutkar.

Thank you. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Like so many other government policies, this one needs common sense and it needs flexibility because there are probably lots of times when somebody is going to be an escort for a patient, if they are going for 21 days or more, in all likelihood it may not be practical or it may not be necessary for that escort to stay with that patient for that entire time. It may just be required that they travel with them, make sure they are delivered into the hands of a health care practitioner down there and they may not need someone to stay. You’re not travelling with the patient...