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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 6 Hansard (24 May) . . Page.. 1670 ..
MR STEFANIAK: No, just that particular point because it explains it fairly simply. I am awfully sorry if you cannot understand it.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Minister, the inference or the imputation about a threat should be ignored.
MR STEFANIAK: I intend to, Mr Speaker. Thank you for that. I will read it slowly; so hopefully he can understand it. The quote reads:
injection for operations: the increase of $5.443m from original budget to 1999-2000 estimated outcome represents the injection for operations due to CIT. Due to a change in accounting treatment the receipt of this amount must now be reflected on the operating statement. For the 2000-01 budget the Department and CIT will not receive injections for operations, following update of benchmarks;
Again, Mr Berry, it is accrual accounting. I go back to what I said earlier.
Ms Carnell: I ask that further questions be placed on the notice paper.
MR SMYTH: Further to Mr Osborne's question, I am informed that if the car is transferred under the will then there is no stamp duty payable. If there is no will, a waiver can be applied for. The advice I am given is that under the circumstances outlined by Mr Osborne the waiver would be granted.
Mr Osborne: Mr Speaker, I thank Mr Smyth for that and I will forward it on to the lady involved.
MR SMYTH: Mr Corbell claimed in the question he asked today that there is a $4 million cut to PALM. I forgot to address this; it is simply wrong. It appears that he has arrived at this figure after having taken a simplistic look at and comparing the figures in last year's Budget Paper No 2 with this year's figures. If he looked further than just the pie chart in the Urban Services section he would have actually found out why. This kind of reading of the budget is the reason why Labor left us with a $344 million, $347 million or $349 million deficit. The reality is that there is a cut in funding but it is nowhere near the $4 million that Mr Corbell puts forward because $3 million of it relates to the transfer of WorkCover out of PALM. I do not have to remind you, Mr Speaker, that this was in line with the wishes of the Assembly, including Mr Corbell, at the time.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, yesterday I took on notice a question from Ms Tucker about the process for issuing interactive gambling licences. I seek leave to table and incorporate into Hansard the response to that question.
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