I'd like to sincerely thank the panel for taking the time to come here. I know this is probably not the first time you've been here making submissions. I can understand the great level of anxiety and frustration that you've encountered over the years. I, too, share those frustrations.
I know there are a number of very important suggestions that are being made with respect to what I believe are mid-term and long-term options and solutions, or at least the framework where we can address issues in the mid term and long term. I'm not as clear in terms of what the immediate and the short-term solutions are and I'd really like to get a better sense of that.
I know you've alluded to it, but I really would like to get it pinned down in terms of the next few weeks, the next few months, maybe within the year. Any funding that's proposed or that's going to come through, for it to filter through, I suspect, won't happen in the next six months or even a year.
That's what I would like to get a sense of from all of you. I won't really go into a second round because it's a big question and you can all try to answer from your vantage point.