Social Services Committee — Department of Health and Community Services represents 35 per cent of the entire provincial budget currently. So from our point of view, we are very conscious that we need to try and improve efficiency, contain expenditures, yet manage to provide quality services at the same time. So finding cost-effective and innovative solutions is important, both in the short and the long term. That includes evaluations of what we do based on outcomes so that we are doing things that make clinical and fiscal sense. Through the GRI, the Government Renewal Initiative, and budget 2016-17 processes, the department, along with its four regional health authorities and the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information, as well as the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial, have identified a number of potential saving opportunities that will help improve the efficiency of how we do business, how we deliver health care in the province. preface the Estimates document, a number of the variances contained in the Estimates document can be explained with the same explanation under the items on decrease in revenue from 2015-16 budget to the 2015-16 projected revised. In the majority of the department's operating accounts, such as Transportation and Communications, Supplies, and Purchased Services, there's a decrease. This decrease is due to the department's expenditure management plan. This was introduced initially in 2011-12 in an effort to reduce discretionary spending. The department has successfully reduced its operating accounts by over 55 per cent, or $2.3 million, since 2011-12. The following are some examples of the steps that have been taken in the department to reduce those operating accounts. It was the first department to implement a management print strategy, it's got an established inventory control system for office supplies, we have a policy regarding the purchase of food and refreshments for meetings and we've increased the use of teleconferencing