Rylund Johnson

Yeah, thank you. Just could we get a commitment to have that broken down by percentage, or if someone could even just point me to where I could find that. I've seen that list before, but I haven't quite I know there's a lot of work going on in the renewal and the efficiency side. But I think kind of getting a sense if I had to wager a guess, overtime is by far the biggest and everything else is kind of trailing behind that. But I'd like to know that for a fact, Madam Chair. So if someone could point me to where we could find that or provide it at a later date to committee. Thank you, Madam...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm not sure where exactly, or if, in this budget that the new federal money that we've got under the territorial health transfer shows up. But can someone just I remember the Minister saying, you know, it's not as well, the Minister and every single premier across the country is saying there's not as much as we'd hoped. Can the Minister just confirm whether that money is in this current budget and perhaps one more explanation of exactly how much money we got from the federal government. There was some confusion they were trying to, you know, say there was some...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm going to ask some questions about the deficit, which I think could be asked here considering this is where all the finance people go or probably on the overall summary. But can someone just tell me what we project the health authority deficit to be for the current fiscal year we're sitting in and what we then expect that to bring the total cumulative deficit to? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I just different set of questions. I wanted to follow up. I heard the Minister of Health and Social Services say that we have a 40 percent vacancy rate amongst our doctors which, you know, nobody's happy with that percentage; I'm sure we all agree on that. I just want to know one of the paths to increasing that is to make sure we are training and growing our own doctors and making sure we do have the capacity to take on medical resident students. I'm hoping the Minister of health could update this House how many residencies we presently have. Thank you.

There is some funding under the capital project for the transition into the new facility as well as some limited funding in this $8.6 million.

The $844,000 is primarily with a few contractors under our administration or information services, mail chargebacks, Xerox under finance, and some administrative contracts such as French language services, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Alberta // Renal. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, you know, I think it's safe to say that, you know, $11.9 million of additional money is good but when you have an over $200 million deficit, you know, it's real long way to go.

I was hoping I could just get a brief summary of what the main drivers of the deficit are. I know a number of years ago there was a report; I think it was overtime was a big one. I believe reliance on locums was another one. Outofterritory services. But perhaps if someone can educate me as to what the main drivers are and if you have, you know, kind of how much of a percentage those drivers...

Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. So I think it's safe to say we're going to surpass the $200 million mark on our health system deficit.

You know, I get part of that is, you know, being dealt with through or looking for efficiencies and part of that is that we just need some more funding for health in general. Can the Minister speak to the extent the budget we're dealing with for the next fiscal, whether we anticipate that's going to curb the deficit at all? You know, clearly, we're still going to run one but perhaps at least it could plateau instead of increasing every year. Thank you, Madam...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Can the Minister provide an update on when we anticipate the new board for Aurora College being instated? Thank you.

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Speaker. The current process of new leases seems to be recreational leases, and I'm not really sure where that stems from. I know many people live illegally in their recreational leases. They use them as residential leases. Is there any path forward to if we're not going to get title and we're not going to have new leases, allowing a mechanism where a recreational lease can become a residential lease? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.