Page 2605 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 24 August 1994
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MR WOOD: The toilets, certainly, should be cleaned every day. There is no question about that. At the school where you last taught you did not need to make the toilet visits; but certainly they should be cleaned every day, and there should be no difficulty cleaning windows and the more difficult areas of the school. I will see that that high standard is maintained.
Ms Follett: I ask that further questions be placed on the notice paper, Madam Speaker.
Tobacco Franchise Fee Revenue
MS FOLLETT: Yesterday, Mr Stefaniak asked me a question about the higher than estimated revenue from tobacco franchise fees during 1993-94. I can provide a full answer for Mr Stefaniak. The tobacco franchise fees were expected to raise $25.5m in 1993-94. The actual receipts amounted to $30.9m - $5.4m above the estimate. I am happy to advise Mr Stefaniak that the additional revenue is not attributed to a vastly increased number of smokers but to a larger payment from New South Wales than was expected at budget time in respect of ACT fees incorrectly paid to New South Wales and further success in compliance activity by revenue inspectors which identified significant underpayments from wholesalers. In addition to the lump sum payments received, that compliance activity has created an increased tax base and, consequently, additional revenues on a permanent basis. That additional revenue will amount, we estimate, to $2.25m in 1994-95. I seek leave to incorporate that answer in Hansard.
Leave granted.
Answer incorporated at Appendix 2.
Traffic Offences
MR CONNOLLY: Madam Speaker, yesterday in question time Mr Moore asked me why police are asking for employer details when issuing traffic infringement notices. I am advised that there is a box on the traffic infringement notice with an occupation/place of employment section, and that that is sometimes, but not always, filled in or asked for by police to assist in identification of a person. Members would be aware that a year or so ago there were some publicised cases where a motorist had given somebody else's name and address when picked up for an offence. They then ignored the infringement notice, and the innocent person ended up being dragged before the court. So there is an attempt to assist in verifying identification by asking "Who is your employer?", on the basis that somebody could easily say that they were Fred Smith but, when asked, "Whom do you work for?", it may indicate whether they are not being truthful.
Mr Moore: This is when somebody does not show their licence?
MR CONNOLLY: If somebody does not show their licence, although they can ask for it even with a licence being shown.
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