Page 988 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 25 February 2009
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rattle off quite a number of projects. If I get the next question, maybe I will when I find the paperwork of all the projects that we have done. We have spent $282 million in comparison to the last record of the opposition. What was your record? Was the figure I saw $68 million? Even then there was an underspend of about 40 per cent, I think. We have spent $282 million. We are focused on delivering this stimulus package. We understand the importance of it to the ACT community. We are working hard. We have processes in place already, and we—
Mr Hanson: The first step of the hospital redevelopment has fallen over.
MS GALLAGHER: I am not going to respond to interjections.
Mr Smyth: Yes, I’d be embarrassed about the hospital redevelopment falling over as well.
MS GALLAGHER: Well, I am not embarrassed. Mr Hanson is wrong, yet again. We have processes in place. We are focused on it. We are going to deliver the stimulus package. What I do is urge the opposition to get behind it and be part of the solution rather than just bagging it from the sidelines.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Coe, a supplementary question?
MR COE: Yes, thank you, a supplementary question. Treasurer, what action are you taking to fast-track the recommendations relevant to the Treasury from the Auditor-General to satisfy the requirements for capital works projects which will be undertaken under the federal government’s stimulus package?
MS GALLAGHER: Which recommendation was that, Alistair? I have just had a look through all the recommendations, and I cannot—
Mr Smyth: You said you hadn’t read it.
MS GALLAGHER: But I am a very quick learner, Mr Smyth, you see. What I have done whilst you have all been bickering here in question time—luckily I had it with me, sitting on top with the very extensive amount of work that I have still got to do today—is have a look, Alistair—Mr Coe, sorry—through those recommendations, and I cannot actually find one that is relevant to the Treasury. Perhaps you could draw it to my attention, if you may. I do not know if you have the report there or the recommendations specific to Treasury that I will need to respond to.
Mr Coe: You’re not going to do anything? Is that a no?
MS GALLAGHER: In your supplementary, give me a recommendation.
Mr Coe: That was the supplementary.
MS GALLAGHER: Well, I will give you another supplementary. I will give you leave to tell me.
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