To Ms. Thomas, you said that the Department of Defence, obviously, has priorities. What I want to know, and my colleagues have said earlier.... To see it in reports over decades, the same problems over and over, is obviously a big challenge for us.
Does each ministry and its department identify the budget required to restore, maintain and preserve heritage sites and identify that as a line item in their budgets? If so, then we can know if the governments didn't fund those requirements. If it's never identified, then it's hard for a minister or a government to know that it is there. The only way I see that a government would know and be able to act on that is if there were line items every year to say what we have preserved and what we need, and this is the shortfall. Has that been done in the last decade or so?