Wendy Bisaro

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.

Mr. Moses, do you have a further question?

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

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

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, Mr. Dolynny. I’m not sure this is a question for this Minister, but I’ll go to Mr. Abernethy for a response.

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Mr. Dolynny, your time is up. Next on the list is Mr. Moses.

Thank you, committee. Page 3-29, Human Resources, activity summary, employee services, operations expenditure summary, $14.293 million.