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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 12 Hansard (11 November) . . Page.. 3944 ..

MR BERRY (continuing):

By the end of the current financial year -

that is, 1996-97 -

the Government will have provided some $25.59m for redundancies. Of this amount, $12m will come from the central redundancy pool and $13.59m will be agency funded.

Mr Humphries: But these are your figures, Wayne, and they are stuffed.

MR BERRY: No. Gary Humphries just interjects, "These are your figures". No; these are your figures. The latest Estimates Committee report says:

By the end of the current financial year the Government will have provided some $25.59m for redundancies. Of this amount, $12m will come from the central redundancy pool and $13.59m will be agency funded.

Mr Humphries: On a point of order, Mr Temporary Deputy Speaker: The question is: Did he add the total in as well when he added up these figures?

MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: There is no point of order.

MR BERRY: Surprise, surprise, Mr Humphries - over $25m in one year!

Mr Humphries: This is Berrynomics, is it?

MR BERRY: No. Those are the facts - over $25m for just one year. These figures indicate that agency-funded redundancies are running at a higher rate than the central pool redundancies. This can only indicate that the number of redundancies under the Liberals is double, if not more than double, the figure Mrs Carnell has put up for the central pool. We know that it is more. We know that the Department of Urban Services alone spent $9m just in this past year on agency-funded redundancies.

If Mrs Carnell wants to dispute Labor's claim - or if you want to dispute it or if anybody else over there wants to dispute it - what I would like her to do is put up. Just supply all of the figures for all of the agency-funded redundancies since February 1995. Come on; open up the books and tell - - -

Mr Humphries: Mr Temporary Deputy Speaker, Mr Berry has invited me to put up, and I would be delighted to.

MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: No; sit down, Mr Humphries.

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