Page 3106 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 15 September 1993
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Mr Kaine: Why are you saying that it was a tough one? It was as easy as falling off a log.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! The Chief Minister is answering your question, Mr Kaine.
Mr Kaine: She is not answering the question at all.
MADAM SPEAKER: Because you are interrupting. Would you let her speak, please.
MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, the provisions that were carried forward, as I was happy to explain to Mr Kaine, related to a number of items. One of the largest of them, about $15m, related to the fact that in this financial year there are 27 paydays instead of 26. We had made provision for that money and had carried it forward, so it is available. Madam Speaker, it is available and it is included under the heading of provisions in the budget documents. Another item that was carried forward, as members know, was the expenditure on the bus replacement program. As it turned out, the buses that we wished to buy were not available at the time. So, Madam Speaker, that funding is carried over. I believe that it is good management to carry that money forward rather than to spend it during the year for some other purpose. Clearly, we need to maintain our bus replacement program, and we will. We have the funds to do it, thanks to good management, which Mr Kaine does not understand.
Sports Funding
MRS GRASSBY: Madam Speaker, my question is to the Deputy Chief Minister as Minister for Sport. Can the Minister inform the Assembly of the reaction of the sporting community in the ACT to the ACT budget, and particularly to the wonderful softball complex that he is putting in West Belconnen?
Mr Kaine: Absolute disgust; that is the reaction.
MR BERRY: Not so, not so. "Good news for sport in the ACT Budget", said ACTSport. I quote:
"The Minister for Sport, Wayne Berry, has delivered for sport", according to Mr Naar. "The outcome demonstrates a commitment to sport and the positive benefits it offers".
That is the sort of reaction. The initiatives in the sports budget include $1.85m for a district playing field at Conder-Gordon - I know that you would welcome that, Mr De Domenico; $500,000 to commence work on a specialist softball centre at Belconnen; $500,000 for the upgrade of Boomanulla Oval; some portable seating to accommodate 1,500 people; funding for grants being maintained in real terms at $1.89m; joint funding with the Australian Sports Commission for a volunteer development officer; and support for an Aboriginal development officer. These are very important initiatives which are going to be carried through.
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