I believe I heard $24 an hour but I'm assuming it means per diem per day. I'm assuming that's the number we're referring to here.
Again, I'm not quite understanding whether or not there was a change in 2007 to the per diem rate for foster care families. It is alleged that $24 was the rate that may not have changed since 1996, as indicated in yesterday's Hansard, but I'll leave it at that. The question still is that that there is a CPI index that needs to be looked at since 2007. So, if by minimum compounded standards of 1.83 percent per annum, there would still have to have some considerable amount of money being put in in terms of the indexed of this amount annually.
Would the Minister at least agree to investigate further whether this number should be indexed and will it be indexed moving forward?