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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 2 Hansard (2 March) . . Page.. 541 ..
MS CARNELL (continuing):
Although there is a provision for defining funding programs in this way, contestability as it applies to individual services occurs on a case-by-case basis with full regard to the circumstances of the particular context at the time.
The government response suggests that recommendations made in the inquiry report relating to information, consistency and coordination will be accommodated by developing ongoing current and existing structures and developing training for government officers involved in purchasing and contract management. The Government will continue to look carefully at concerns raised in the inquiry report, whilst continuing to implement the service purchasing process and maintaining a robust partnership with the community sector.
Mr Speaker, the Government is proud of its progress and its achievements in implementing the Rogan Johnston report recommendations. I commend to the Assembly the government response to the Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration report on the implementation of service purchasing arrangements in the ACT.
Debate (on motion by Mr Quinlan ) adjourned.
Financial Management Act, pursuant to section 26 - Consolidated Financial Management Report for the month and financial year to date ending 31 January 2000.
MR HUMPHRIES (Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety) (4.14): For the information of members, I present the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Commission's report entitled "ACTEW's Water Charges for 1999-2000 to 2003-2004 - Pass Through of the Water Abstraction Charge". I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
In 1999, in the context of the Water Resources Act 1998, the Assembly agreed that the cost of using water should include a cost reflecting water's scarcity value. The mechanism for reflecting that cost is the water abstraction charge. The Act clearly determined that the charge should be borne by consumers and be directly related to the quantity of the resource that they consume. The charge is applied to ACTEW in the first instance, with the intention that it should be passed through to consumers in ACTEW's billing for water supplied.
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