Opposition Leader Tony Wakeham is questioning Premier Andrew Furey on new revelations concerning the travel nurse contract.

The health minister doubled-down, deferring questions in the House of Assembly surrounding the travel nurse contract and the storage of unclaimed bodies outside the Health Sciences to the health authority.

The government side of the house was grilled by the Opposition, but the health minister says the issues are operational ones to which the health authority must answer.

That’s why, says Tom Osborne, government has called in the Comptroller General to examine the travel nurse contract.

Wakeham asked whether the premier was aware of an instance where a travel nurse’s family was “flown into the province for Christmas and provided with a rental vehicle.” Minister Osborne responded that’s why the Comptroller General was called in. “If contracts were put in place,,,and were not followed, or if there was inappropriate spending at the health authority…if that was in fact the case, officials will be called in.”