Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The concern is, this move says it is going to make things more convenient with a one-window approach. My concern is, indigent seniors and disabled people have different needs and requirements than those who normally go through Education, Culture and Employment for productive choices and career issues, in addition to looking for possible income support.
You may be providing them with one window in terms of cutting the cheque, but there are usually other needs tied into the issue of income when you are looking at indigent seniors and persons with disabilities. There could be housing issues, there could be abuse issues, or other related issues. Are we in effect going to be forcing them, instead of being able to go to a social worker now and get that whole issue dealt with, have to go back and run over to Education to income support to see an income support worker, and somehow make their way across town to wherever the social worker is to deal with the other issues?
Then you get to the issue of coordination and the communication. How is that going to be, so that the indigent seniors and disabled people are not inconvenienced?