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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1998 Week 6 Hansard (3 September) . . Page.. 1953 ..

MR HARGREAVES (continuing):

Put on a moratorium for a reasonable period. The reasonable period needs to be increased, in my view, because we have not chucked in a barrow-load of money and the training and the assistance needed for the introduction.

I warn the Minister and the Government that we will have a less than satisfactory product at the end of the day. We need to be cleverer about this. If you must cut, fine; I have no problem about that. Personally, I do not think it is necessary in certain areas, but I am not going to debate them today. I put this warning on the table: Introduce it too quickly and it will fall on its face. At the end of the day the people who will suffer will be the schoolkids, in the first instance, and all of our teaching staff and the school management staff. What will happen is that we will get ourselves into such a state of corporate financial ruin in some of the schools that we will have to start paying for increased levels of administrative assistance, at SOG C and B levels, to get us out of it. At the end of the day it could be more expensive than the amounts that we are saving now.

Question put:

That the proposed expenditure be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 10	 NOES, 7

Ms Carnell	Mr Berry
Mr Cornwell	Mr Corbell
Mr Hird		Mr Hargreaves
Mr Humphries	Mr Quinlan
Mr Kaine	Mr Stanhope
Mr Moore	Ms Tucker
Mr Osborne	Mr Wood
Mr Rugendyke
Mr Smyth
Mr Stefaniak

Proposed expenditure - Total appropriated to Departments, $1,514,430,000 (comprising net cost of outputs, $1,041,007,000; capital injection, $237,169,000; and payments on behalf of Territory, $236,254,000) - agreed to.

Part 16 - Treasurer's Advance

Proposed expenditure - Treasurer's Advance, $15,100,000 - agreed to.

Proposed expenditure - Total appropriations, $1,529,530,000 (comprising net cost of outputs, $1,041,007,000; capital injection, $237,169,000; payments on behalf of Territory, $236,254,000; and Treasurer's Advance, $15,100,000)

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