Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I see we're getting into the detail of the document and I'll gladly go to that. The general issue of planning and of allocation of dollars, as I stated in question period earlier, was the fact that as dollars are approved or the appropriation is approved for the government to spend money in those areas, if that doesn't proceed and we want to keep the money on the books, we have to come back to this Assembly and ask for approval to carry it over, which this document has a lot of. In this particular case the money is coming back for approval. Again, for the record, the plan is for 18 months from now, for almost two years from now. So it is going to go back into the business plan for future years. For this portion, the department is asking for $505,000, I believe, to begin that plan and is coming to this House for approval.
I don't know how much more the Members want. We can pull out other projects to show that they've been on the books and communities have expectations that those dollars would end up being approved and when the final document comes forward to the House, they're no longer in the books because of changing priorities within departments. This one happens to be mid-stream in the sense that we've got the budget and some changes have been going forward.
I have been informed that as this project came up in substantiation through business planning, that it was always stated that the department would be looking at other options available to it, if options did come available to where the location or facility would be. So it's not absolutely new. There has been discussion. Somba K'e was one of the things that I was informed about as maybe an alternate facility for the Territorial Treatment Centre. So it is something that has been highlighted and passed on and is what I've been informed about. Thank you.