And share with us what instrument you're playing.

About, um, probably five years before I retired, I started- ... playing the ukulele.

And that was all prompted by an article I read in the Green Sheet, if you remember the Green Sheet, and it was about a group called the Ukuladies.

Most of them are, uh, North Shore w- uh, Milwaukee area women, and they all play the ukulele and sing and are very welcoming to newer members, uh, so which I was at the time.

Learned how to play.

Um, I've been a member of the group now for nine years, and we practice every week for a couple hours, and it's a really nice way to do some volunteer work.

Um, we play programs at all kinds of senior centers, various retirement homes.

What should they be thinking about?

What's the latest development?

It has.

This is going on, uh, we've been asking the minister for quite some time now to address the funding issue so that we could take part from the very start of the public hearing side.

But at this stage, um, she has repeatedly explained to us that it's not within her jurisdiction, and she didn't want to step on the toes of the tribunal.

But they have confirmed to us in writing that really they have no role or objection to the minister paying interim funding, um, to us.

To...

You have to understand that the tribunal themselves have awarded l- legal representation to complainants, as well as to the state entities who have full representation are getting paid on a weekly and monthly basis.

Uh- Some of those statements have been very, uh, traumatizing for, for some of the witnesses, and I- you've got an issue with the supports for people being brought into the tribunal in those circumstances.