Mr. Chairman, I'm trying to address a point that the Minister or her department may be failing to recognize. In any studies that have been developed with regard to alcohol and drug treatment centres, it is determined that in order for the facility to be cost-effective and the funding spent to be feasible, these facilities have to have at least 15 beds. When you are creating a facility with only nine beds, you are creating a white elephant. You're not utilizing your funding that you wanted to expend on it in the most effective way. So that is why I am trying to stress to the Minister that to build a nine-bed facility, is going to cost her department a lot more in the long run, than if you looked at the possibly of a 15-bed facility. Thank you.
Jeannie Marie-Jewell on Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on November 30th, 1993. See this statement in context.
Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
November 29th, 1993
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Jeannie Marie-Jewell Thebacha
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