Thank you very much. The NGO sector is more part of EIA than ever given that EIA is now responsible for integrated service delivery. With that comes the homelessness file. The reason that integrated services and homelessness is in EIA is because when it was in Justice, and I was the justice Minister, I found that the Minister had no authority to actually integrate services, that the program with integrated case management was just a program of the Department of Justice. And so to the comments earlier about why homelessness is in EIA, it is beside integrating service as the approach we're taking is we start -- we're starting with one issue as opposed to trying to do everything all at once. And so, of course, with that comes a lot of work with NGOs. And so that is going to be core to the work that we do over the next four years. I've had -- or three and a half years. I've had conversations with the deputy minister already about approaches to ensuring that our NGO partners do have the stability they need to address their files. Maybe I can hand it to the deputy minister for some comments on this because it is an area that we have discussed at length. Thank you chair.
R.J. Simpson on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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