Social Services Committee — Department of Health, plus there was a $2 million transition fund that was established in last year's budget for the department. So those two amounts combined make up what the 2009-2010 Budget column would represent. The revised estimates as well came from Health, and based on expenditures up to the point in time that we were required to submit the revised numbers. MS MICHAEL: Okay. I would imagine, and I do not know, and I do not know if you know, minister: Would Health have done that every year that you actually would have been able to find documentation? MS BURKE: (Inaudible). MS MICHAEL: No, you would not have. So, I guess that is what I am asking. When Health did this, did they come up with a document that they gave to you in the new ministry in order to come up with these two columns? MR. GRANDY: This would be the document. We do not have a line by line detail of those budget numbers, no. MS MICHAEL: So Health just gave you asked for figures and they gave you these figures. MR. GRANDY: They were produced in this Estimates document, that is right. MS MICHAEL: I see. Okay, thank you very much. I just wanted to ask that up front to sort of get a sense of where the figures came from. If we wanted to find out if there is more detail, we would have to go to Health and ask them if they had a document. Okay, thank you so much. Then I will just start with the line items. Obviously, there is not a lot I can question because of the fact of the new ministry, but when we come over to section 2.1.01 - and this is where it is curious for me - under 2.1.01, line 01., Salaries, the budgeted line item says $1,110,700. We have a difference between the budget and the revision. Not a huge one, but there is a difference between the Budget and the revision, $358,400. Then we have the new estimate, which is basically the same. Why the difference between the budgeted and the revision? Do you have that information? It is 2.1.01. MS BURKE: So you are asking w

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