Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the department, as I said before, has done some community-based first responder training to -- we want to improve the capacity of our staff and volunteers; and then also a web-based tool kit to help communities recruit and train volunteer first responders. Then we have the, we had the, work that was just done, and they identified some challenges that we're facing. I mean, I can assure the Member and all Members, actually, that we recognize that this is a service that's required by some communities, but then we also respect the communities' desire to have more training so that they can be first responders without the liability.
There are opportunities for communities through some of the funding that they receive from the department, along with applying for the pot of funding here, the $185,000 pot of funding, to help them with some of their capital costs that they may require to provide this service. The big one is to build the capacity so they can be first responders. Thank you, Mr. Chair.