Indeed, we might consider making expenditures that are not designed to reduce poverty and we hope that the act does not inhibit our ability to make this sort of expenditure.
If we want to calculate them differently, that’s another question, but as the bill is drafted at present, our lawyers fear that we might arrive at a broad definition of development that does not include all sorts of initiatives, for example, by the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Finance, that are not necessarily aimed at reducing poverty. We don’t what to prohibit the ministers from making such expenditures. How do you want to calculate them? That’s another question, but we don’t want the ability to spend to be limited only to projects that are designed to reduced poverty.