Page 2178 - Week 08 - Thursday, 10 September 1992
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Mr Kaine also commented on roll-overs, and I would like to respond to that by advising that in the case of roll-overs for commitments that are entered into but for which expenditure is incurred after the end of the financial year - I think Mr Kaine does appreciate that - we are dealing with a timing issue only. There has been no change to the practice Mr Kaine adopted as Treasurer, and the documents we have before us indicate a normal situation, which Mr Kaine himself also presided over. Where there are payments from the Commonwealth that have been changed, very often those changes are a response to Commonwealth policy changes. For example, in the asbestos area there is clearly a change, and that has to be reflected in the way that it has been. The mechanism for on-passing these matters is set down. Perhaps if Mr Kaine wants a closer explanation of that it would be possible to arrange it, but I believe that he might only have been making debating points on those matters.
I thank members for their comments. I believe that the outcome is one that does credit to the Government and, in particular, to the Treasury. In a very difficult situation of reducing funding they have managed to put the documents together extremely well. Members have clearly taken them on board pretty well and have not made enormous or substantive comments upon them. I thank the Treasury for their work on all of those documents and, of course, for their continued assistance in the good management of the ACT's financial situation. Very briefly in closing, Mr Kaine has scored a point relating to page 8 of the Treasury's quarterly financial statement. The figure of $3.808m under the ACT Legislative Assembly program description is an error. Two figures have been transposed; that figure ought to read $3.716m, as I am sure Mr Kaine knows full well. I mention that because, if I do make an error, I am only too pleased to own up to it and correct it where that is possible, and to pay Mr Kaine, or perhaps his office, the credit for having read these figures very closely. I thank members for their comments.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
TREASURER'S QUARTERLY FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Paper
Debate resumed from 20 August 1992, on motion by Ms Follett:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
TREASURER'S ADVANCE
Paper
Debate resumed from 20 August 1992, on motion by Ms Follett:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
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