Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As the current Finance Minister, of course I would be looking at that request very carefully. I would suggest to the Member that if there weren’t existing funds available to deal with that issue, we would collectively have to look at if the government has the capacity and flexibility and is going to get into the business of low-interest loans to communities how do we do that. How much would there be? Would it be affordable? Then we wouldn’t be able to approach this issue just on a one-off basis. We’d have to be very mindful of that. We’d have to work, of course the new Cabinet would look at that, then we would of course be coming back to all the Members to find out the best way forward, if that capacity was there. Given our tight financial circumstances, as I indicated, I’d be looking very carefully to see what we could do, if anything, in that regard.
Michael Miltenberger on Questions By Members
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