Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Andrew and Rutha, for coming and for your valuable input to the committee.
We are doing this study to see how we can improve the level of compassion and support for grieving parents and to ensure that parents do not suffer any undue financial or emotional hardship. Losing a child has a devastating effect on a parent. Money cannot compensate for it. Everybody knows that. We know that, but we want to give something to the parents so that they are able to cope with hardships.
Andrew, you talked about the sickness benefits. You suggested that there are some benefits and you advised that parents can go and look for those benefits. You also talked about the emotional and psychological effects of grieving to remove the grief. You also talked about how support may provide some measure of assistance for parents in the event of the loss of a child. You think these grieving parents, those who need the support.... Are you saying that you want to provide this by way of counselling or by directly giving something as a sickness benefit—money—to them, or do you mean both of those?