Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a number of issues and comments in no particular order. The first one has to do with, and I think it’s referenced in the Minister’s opening remarks, and that’s the number of senior managers that are nearing retirement. This was something I think we talked about last year during business plans. I’d like to know from the Minister where the department is in assisting other departments in planning for the loss of our senior managers and that corporate knowledge that is going with them. I’m curious to know what percentage of our senior managers is going to be lost to...

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Mr. Moses, nothing further? Page 3-25, Human Resources, activity summary, corporate human resources, operations expenditure summary, $9.163 million. Mr. Hawkins.

I want to thank the Minister, although I’m not quite sure I appreciate his response. However, I’ll look at Hansard tomorrow and check it out.

One of the other concerns that I have with nurse practitioners is the way that we fund them, and my understanding is that we have about nine nurse practitioners that we as a government are funding. I’d like to ask the Minister how these nine NPs are funded. Are they all funded from the base funding from the department or are some of them funded by federal funding? Thank you.

Thanks, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Abernethy.

We are agreed. Thank you, committee. Page 3-37, Human Resources, activity summary, labour relations, operations expenditure summary, $2.614 million.

Thank you, Minister Abernethy. Next on the list is Mr. Menicoche.

Mr. Moses, do you have a further question?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Interestingly enough, Mr. Bouchard and I are on the same page today. I have some questions for the Minister of Health and Social Services and they are also about nurse practitioners. It was last June and also when we were deliberating the budget a year ago last February that there was quite a bit of talk about nurse practitioners and funding nurse practitioners, using them and so on. At that time in June, the Minister of Health and Social Services talked about a lack of doctors and using nurse practitioners. He mentioned that there were funding obstacles and it’s the...

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you, committee. Page 3-33, Human Resources, activity summary, regional operations, operations expenditure summary, $4.574 million.