Madam Speaker, I want to respond to the statement of the hon Semple. I am sure that the hon member is well aware that the decisions around the distribution of lottery funds are not taken by the department, but by independent distribution agencies and, in any number of cases that I have come across, there can be a lot of reasons why charities have not received funds. It could be that they are not considered worthy, and there are better competitors or they may not have submitted the required information.
Having said that, it is clearly not the policy of the Department of Trade and Industry that decisions should be delayed because of bureaucratic inertia. I think in the absence of any further information from the hon member it is not possible to say which category the particular cases she refers to are in. If she perhaps cares to give us the list of those and some information, we can follow up and try to see what the reasons for these problems are, and then get back to her.