Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, this is an issue, a long-outstanding issue, that goes back well beyond division even in 1999. The issue of multi-year funding has been something that's been sought by NGOs for a long period of time. So it's being communicated to folks that we have the capacity to do that and that we intend to make use of that capacity, keeping in mind that the NGOs still have to account for their funding on a yearly basis as well, just as we do, to the Legislature and that the Legislature, as in all cases, has the final say on budgets and it's always dependent on the total budget being passed by this Legislature. But the capacity to commit to NGOs that funding will be there is one that we will commit to make better and greater use of. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 20th, 2006. See this statement in context.
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 20th, 2006
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