Thank you, Madam Chair. This comes down to care intensity. Often, you have individuals who require one-on-one, 24/7 care. Sometimes, you have people who have feeding tubes or special, very intense care needs. Sometimes, you have individuals who have behaviour issues which require a good workforce of people trained in different methods of behavioural modification and different tools and strategies. What it comes down to is a mixture of probably some human resource capacity issues, the ability to have to guarantee a continuous service over the life of a person inside a market that can fluctuate, expertise. Sometimes, it's actually having facility with the correct equipment and to be able to provide the level of care that's required. It really comes down to an individual-case decision about when someone would be cared for in the South. Many of these arrangements are historical. They go back quite a ways, and some of them are family-based care arrangements and where individuals with disabilities have a kinship relationship there. It's their family now, in some ways, that they're living with. There are tangibles as I've described, and there are also some intangibles for some of the people who are there now that we expect our review will show. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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