Wendy Bisaro

I’m sorry. That didn’t really help. Maybe I should ask the question what do physicians, an approximation of the number that physicians cost us on an annual basis. Thank you.

Thanks for that explanation on the client navigator.

I just have one quick question. The Minister made a statement this week about Drop the Pop and I wondered if I could get an explanation from her, or a bit of an elaboration on whether or not this program will also target energy drinks, which I think are probably even more evil than pop is. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, I guess it begs the question to the Minister: if it is a system debt and it has been three years that they have been trying to rework the system debt, how come we haven’t seen any change in the various health authorities? Why are they still working with budgets which are obviously unworkable? They are obviously underfunded.

The Minister referenced a number of things that the department is doing. I support all of those things, but I guess I am wondering why we aren’t seeing some effect of the changes that are happening, the efficiencies that are being found, the reworking of...

Thank you again, Mr. Speaker. I give notice that on Thursday, February 10, 2011, I will move the following motion: I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Thebacha, that, notwithstanding Rule 4, when this House adjourns on February 10, 2011, it shall be adjourned until Monday, February 14, 2011;

And further, that any time prior to February 14, 2011, if the Speaker is satisfied, after consultation with the Executive Council and Members of the Legislative Assembly, that the public interest requires that the House should meet at an earlier time during the adjournment, the Speaker may give...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to table the anti-poverty workshop report titled No Place for Poverty. Thank you.

I’d like to know if the Minister could advise -- I hope it goes on this page, it’s kind of hard to tell -- but one of the things that we discovered in the Child and Family Services Act was the need to I want to say update but I actually mean to throw out the current system that the social services division works on and replace it with a new, modern, updated, CFIS system or some other system. I’d like to know from the Minister whether or not there’s any money in this budget to begin that work and when we might expect a replacement of the current computer system that social services uses.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As we begin the consideration of the Health and Social Services budget today I want to give voice to my concerns about the Foundation for Change planning document apparently in use by the department. It apparently guides the department’s operations and activities, but this “strategic document,” to quote the Minister, contains little detail on how it does that. That is my concern.

The idea of a strategic document to reform the Department of Health and Social Services was first presented to Members through the Standing Committee on Social Programs about a year and a half...

I understand that all those things happen. My question was more to what on the ground, or what sort of day-to-day changes have been made to the way the health and social services authorities are managed and administered. I believe the Minister advised us some time ago that the department was looking to try and streamline things between authorities and the department. So have any changes taken place and, if so, what are those? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have some questions on this page. The first one is related to the health and social services authorities’ agency administration. The description talks about that this funding is for activities associated with management under the administration of authorities. I’d like to know if the Minister could advise what actions have taken place or what actions will be funded in this budget to improve the administration and management of health and social services authorities. Thank you.

I appreciate the breakdown. I’m struggling to understand. We’ve got, I don’t know, one review for sure which was itemized and then at the end it was a number of reviews. I know that this funding is sunsetting at the end of March of 2012 and I appreciate that federal funding has to end sometime, but I am sort of struggling with what some of this funding is being used for and I wondered two things: what is the territorial support network, and which reviews. Mr. Elkin mentioned a number of reviews. I wonder if he could tell me what those reviews are. Thank you.