Social Services Committee — Department of Health started one year prior to this fiscal year on a three-year planning cycle in its budgetary exercise, based on a commitment that government gave in the 1996-1997 fiscal Budget that Health would be given a flat line operational budget for a period of three years. It would be done so that it would enable the health care system to respond to the significant degree of restructuring that had taken place within the health care sector over the past two or three years prior to. This is the second year of the three-year planning cycle we are in. The only significant, I guess, caveat, that was placed within the three-year budget time frame, was that we live within it, but having said that, we had the latitude or the flexibility of adjusting the budget as would be necessary as we went through that three-year planning cycle, because, obviously, we were making significant changes in the system. I refer to an ongoing and greater emphasis in the area, for instance, of community health as opposed to institutional health care, and to some extent you will see that reflected in some of the changes in the line items in the budget as we go forward. Notwithstanding the commitment of a flat line budget last year, when all other departments were taking significant reductions, this year the health budget was again increased, not by a large amount vis--vis its total budget, but certainly in absolute dollars, there was a fair degree put back into health care or added to the operational side of the health care budget in addition to, of course, some things in the capital side of it and so, this year again, while all departments were taking reductions in expenditures, health care, because it is of such a significant priority for government and the people of the Province, received some additional funding for very specific areas that were announced in the Budget, and I will not get into repeating them. You may want to chat about them as we go through