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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 4 Hansard (7 May) . . Page.. 1064 ..

MR HUMPHRIES: No; because all sorts of people use roads around schools, not just people who are using the school, unless the school is at the end of a long road where nothing else is there and you are only going to the school. I suppose you might count that as an education spending. No, roads around schools serve other purposes as well. A road through a nature reserve generally does not.

Mrs Carnell: I ask that all further questions be placed on the notice paper, Mr Speaker.

MRS CARNELL: I would like to give some further information on the question asked by Ms McRae in question time today. Ms McRae indicated that the Access Economics forecast was minus 0.5, was it?

Ms McRae: No, 0.5; no minus.

MRS CARNELL: You said "minus 0.5".

Ms McRae: I probably did.

MRS CARNELL: Ours is 0.25. Mr Speaker, I have the Access Economics forecast for employment growth here.

Ms McRae: No; "a fall in employment of 0.5 per cent" is what I said.

MRS CARNELL: The Access Economics employment figures, according to the document I have, which is their forecast for all States, are suggesting an employment growth of 0.3 per cent. The ACT Government has used 0.25 per cent. Maybe it is not our modelling that Ms McRae should get; she should ask Access Economics for theirs. The fact is that what we have here is a projection from Access Economics that is virtually the same as the figures we have used in our budget - 0.3 versus 0.25. I think that makes it very clear that the approach we have taken is very much in line with theirs.

MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I would like to provide an answer to a question I took on notice earlier from Mr Corbell. On 10 April Mr Corbell asked whether the chief executive of Totalcare Industries has sought or received a pay increase to reflect additional responsibilities flowing from the transfer of functions from the Department of Urban Services. The answer to that question is no. There has been no adjustment to the salary of the managing director of Totalcare Industries flowing from the transfer of functions from the Department of Urban Services. The remuneration of the managing director was last adjusted in October of last year, but that was long before the transfer of any functions took place. I am sure Mr Corbell would know that, in any case, the managing director's remuneration is a matter entirely for the board of Totalcare Industries to determine.

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