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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 7 Hansard (10 July) . . Page.. 2428 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):

subsidies, not one about individual issues. If members wish to raise individual issues they can do so under the vote on the issue that the total appropriations to departments, as amended, be agreed to.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

MR SPEAKER: Standing order 180 sets down the order in which this bill will be considered; that is, in the detail stage, any schedule expressing the services for which the appropriation is to be made must be considered before the clauses and, unless the Assembly otherwise orders, the schedules will be considered by proposed expenditure in the order shown. I remind members that we have agreed to reconsider schedule 1, part 5 by, appropriation unit and departmental total, by the total appropriated to departments as amended, and by the total appropriations as amended, and clause 6 of the bill.

Schedule 1-Appropriations

Proposed expenditure-part 5-Treasury and Infrastructure, $19,715,000 (net cost of outputs), $14,891,00; (capital injection) and $44,665,000 (payments on behalf of the territory), totalling $79,271,000.

MR HUMPHRIES (Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety) (4.16): Mr Speaker, I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to government amendments to the bill, and I move:

Mr Speaker, as I indicated before, this amendment basically increases the appropriation for the Department of Treasury and Infrastructure in the category of expenses on behalf of the territory by $1 million. That is the government's estimate of the additional costs that will be entailed in restoring the subsidy.

The government intends to bring forward a bill in the August sitting to be able to do that. I will, however, attempt to formulate a proposal for payment of the subsidy by administrative means and write to members giving them an indication of what those arrangements might be so that subsidies can be restored to those who sell those products prior to the Assembly considering the bill to facilitate that in August.

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