Thank you, Mister Speaker, for giving me the opportunity, the time, to ask maybe one or two questions. But before I put those questions forward, I'd just like to perhaps provide a bit of background, just a short one, before I can lay the question out. Firstly, I want to thank the work that the Minister for Agriculture has been doing regarding BACRA and related matters. I was at the chocolate festival, and I saw their stall, and then I also read the June bulletin of the Bougainville bulletin, and there was a lot of good information there about BACRA, which perhaps it is on its way to becoming an independent, fully-fledged, regulatory authority for this very important sector. That is where our internal revenue is.

So, I think congratulations, but I feel that it is work in progress. So, BACRA, I think it concerns a range of agricultural products. But, at present, it's focusing on cocoa. So, as we speak, there are a lot of cocoa participants, from the wet and dry beans, and then downstream processes. Other watery stuff.

DJ Garden in North Nasia is doing a lot of work. There is cocoa powder being produced by some enterprising individuals and big Ishmael businesses. There is also cocoa powder. Chocolate has also been produced by individual companies, small entrepreneurs. I think, regarding cocoa, there's also something called muumas muumang tau, a cocoa paste that is becoming so popular in many places.

So, my question, I'd like to ask probably, well, the Minister, is how can we reach economies of scale with these products? How can we? What can we do as a government, or as a department, or as a regulatory authority, to achieve economies of scale? That is where our internal revenue is. That is an opportunity for export earnings.

So that's number one. Number two, I'd like to perhaps talk about coffee. Coffee is an emerging crop, although it's not new to Bougainville. So right now, as we speak, coffee is being produced in Bougainville. It's been grown, and I am a proud consumer of Bougainville coffee.

This coffee is being grown in Kona, in Proparo, in Pankona, in Emily, in Rotokas. So coffee, from the John bulletin, I, no, no, no, no.

Please,

go to your question.

So the question regarding coffee is, can we budget for coffee in 2025? Support coffee. Because it is a time-tested crop, and it has very significant potential. Number three, my third question, goes to the Minister for Health regarding healthcare.

Yes, Minister. Let the Minister for DPI and Fisheries answer the question now, please.

Speaker, I'll just ask this question and sit down. It's a short one. So I ask the Minister for Health to explain why health services have declined in districts and why everybody is congregating at Buka Hospital.

Thank you, Minister Speaker. Minister for DPI Ishmael. Thank you, Member for copy, for your question in regards to the coffee commodity. As we all understand that BACRA is a regulatory authority that focuses on making sure that each of the commodities that we have is regulated. So cocoa is one of the priorities that we've actually prioritized to ensure, Mister Speaker, that the powers and functions of coffee are being passed down to Bougainville.

So, by January, 100% of that cocoa commodity will now be transferred to Bougainville, with the joint process that is ongoing with the Cocoa Board. In terms of coffee, it is under CIC. So we have a similar arrangement as well, to make sure that the regulations are there. So, in terms of licensing, in terms of export fees, in terms of all the necessary mechanisms to make sure that the government also is being accountable in ensuring that it's supporting its people, this process has to be in place. Similar to how we have established the cocoa regulatory process, that will also apply for coffee as well.

In terms of the plan for wider commodity production in Bougainville, currently, I think one of our priorities, and it's true in partnership with our economic sector, we are looking at supporting homegrown industries in Bougainville by empowering them, ma'am, because as a government organization, our main priority is regulatory. We need to support the business houses that are doing business in terms of the agriculture space, downstream, and all that. And this is the sort of plan that we're anticipating, which will be done through the Commerce Department by processing the policy submission in supporting the small businesses in Bougainville. With coffee, yes, this is the same process as well. So, thank you.

Supplementary.