Michael Miltenberger

Thank you, Madam Chair. The commitment is going to be, of course, for Health and Social Services to work with the Social Programs committee. This supp was pulled together as a result of a lot of work in the last number of days. The Members are asking for a lot of detail on things that we haven’t had a chance to really put our minds to, other than to agree to the global figure and the general areas where the money is going to be allocated. I’ll ask Minister Beaulieu if he wants to add further to that, but as we are with the Heritage Fund, and as we’ll have the discussion on the energy money...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I have with me the deputy minister of Finance, Mike Aumond; and deputy secretary to the FMB, Sandy Kalgutkar.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I apologize. I refer this question to the Minister of Health and Social Services, please.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I am here to present Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 1, 2012-2013. This document outlines a net increase of $4.601 million in operations expenditures for the 2012-2013 fiscal year.

The major items included in the supplementary estimates are:

$250,000 for the Department of Finance to provide appropriation authority to transfer funds from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the Heritage Fund.

$200,000 for the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs to continue the Ground Ambulance Program.

$900,000 for the Department of Health and Social Services to...

Thank you. I don’t have that level of detail here, so I’ll commit to get that for the Member.

Mr. Speaker, I give notice that, on Wednesday, June 13, 2012, I will move that Bill 6, Supplementary Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2012-2013, be read for the first time. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have Mike Aumond, deputy minister of Finance; Mr. Sandy Kalgutkar, deputy secretary to the FMB.

Thank you. Similar to the Heritage Fund contribution, this money will be going into the base and there’s no time bar, date attached to this. So it’s going to be an ongoing funding.

I’ll point out, as well, that we’re now moving into, as we conclude this session, full bore into the business planning session cycle for 2013-14 and we’ll be in a position to have the long and fulsome discussions that haven’t been available this time because we were playing catch-up with the start of a new government and we won’t have the compressed time frames. So business plan will be before committee. The capital...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’ll proceed. We’re trying to see if they’re still in the building. If not, I will proceed without them.

Thank you, Madam Chair. This money was put back in the budget for this year. So I’ll defer to Minister Robert C. McLeod in terms of timelines. Thank you.