Given the small populations in many of these communities, is the allocation of money according to population, a sort of population-based allocation, appropriate? Is there a better scheme that you would be looking at to ensure that communities that have either been neglected or left behind can be brought up to a certain standard, one that a lot of us expect in the southern part of the country? There must be some interest in accelerating this beyond simply allocating by population.
On May 28th, 2019. See this statement in context.