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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 5 Hansard (11 May) . . Page.. 1484 ..

MR STEFANIAK (Minister for Education) (3.52): For the information of members, I present the following paper:

I move:

I seek leave to incorporate my speech in Hansard.

Leave granted.

The speech read as follows:

Mr Speaker, today I am responding to Report No. 4 of the Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Education, Community Services and Recreation on the 1998-1999 Annual and Financial Reports for the Department of Education and Community Services and Related Agencies.

I welcome the committee's general satisfaction with both sets of annual and financial reports and acknowledge the proposals put by the committee for the improvement of future annual and financial reports.

The committee makes a total of nine recommendations. The Government supports seven recommendations and the intent of another. The recommendation not supported by Government covers a full analysis of the impact of the SACS award on non-government organisations.

Mr Speaker, the reason the Government does not agree with the recommendation about undertaking a full analysis of the impact of the SACS award on non-government organisations is that it does not take into account current purchasing arrangements. Award salaries are only one aspect in the overall context of determining the purchase price for these outputs.

However, a costing exercise is being undertaken this year with service providers which will, among other things, look at operational costs.

Mr Speaker, I will turn now to the eight recommendations the Government supports.

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