Page 853 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 27 March 1990
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MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, to the extent that there were any formal consultations with any of those people, I will take on notice the question of any dates or times or days that the member requires. My recollection is that there were not any formal discussions with any of those bodies on that proposal.
Food Services
MRS GRASSBY: Mr Speaker, my question is to the Chief Minister as Treasurer. The Follett Labor Government budget contains provision for food service review for which the then Chief Minister, Ms Follett, gained funding from the Federal Government as part of the $7m advanced from the trust fund. My question is, how will the $2.6m be spent?
MR KAINE: It is a very interesting question, Mr Speaker, because although the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition made much of the fact that they were getting $7m of the money which the Commonwealth had retained, in fact it has not yet been paid to us, and I have had no advice from the Prime Minister as to if or when he intends to make it available. Until he makes it available, the money cannot be spent and I will make no further comment on it.
MRS GRASSBY: I have a supplementary question, Mr Speaker, please. When will the Chief Minister find out about that money that the - - -
MR KAINE: When the Prime Minister - - -
MRS GRASSBY: I did not finish the question.
MR SPEAKER: Chief Minister, order! Please allow her to finish the question.
MR KAINE: I thought she had asked the question.
MR SPEAKER: No, she has not. Please proceed, Mrs Grassby.
MRS GRASSBY: As the promise had been given to the then Chief Minister, Ms Follett, when will the now Chief Minister and Treasurer find out where that money is, and how will it be spent?
MR KAINE: Well, I have asked the Prime Minister to make the money available but he has not responded, just as he did not respond to Ms Follett's request for $295m, to which she never got a response. I have again asked the Prime Minister for it and I still have not received a response. In other words, the great claim that the previous Chief Minister made about the great relationship she had with the Commonwealth on financial matters - - -
Ms Follett: I made no such claim.
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