Thank you. We have a limited budget, and you can only cut it so many ways. I would love to see that fund increased. I think going forward that is -- may have to happen. We are at a point now where we have been receiving proposals for this fund, and those proposals have resulted in grants to the organization and then new spaces being created. We've seen it across the territory. A lot of the organizations who were on that path to, you know, or thinking about developing child care centres have already accessed this funding and so now we're finding that there's not as many organizations out there that have as well-defined plans. Because it's not just an application to build a child care centre. You also need a plan to operate a child care centre. So that is one of the criteria. So we are trying to figure out now how do we best use these funds to support groups that want to build something, and it might not -- they might not be at the point where they're ready to build; they might need a different type of assistance. Thank you.
R.J. Simpson on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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