Page 1945 - Week 05 - Thursday, 3 May 2012
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MS GALLAGHER: Don’t you worry about it at all.
Members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, members. Enough!
MS GALLAGHER: It appears that Mr Hanson worries a bit too much about me, though, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Let us go to the question, Ms Gallagher.
MS GALLAGHER: I think he is a little bit obsessed.
Members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Members, enough!
MS GALLAGHER: A little bit obsessed.
Mr Seselja: It’s because you’re a victim.
MS GALLAGHER: Oh, a victim!
MR SPEAKER: Order! One moment, Chief Minister. Sit down, thank you. Members, we are now 45 seconds into the question and we have heard nothing from the Chief Minister as an answer. Let us cut down on the interjecting. Chief Minister, let us just focus on the question at hand, thank you.
MS GALLAGHER: Mr Speaker, I would just say that I do not see myself as a victim. I am not sure why the Leader of the Opposition would be interjecting that I am a victim. I certainly do not see myself as one, not even a victim of them.
MR SPEAKER: Chief Minister, the question, thank you.
MS GALLAGHER: The evidence-based social policymaking is important because it means that, with the resources that the government have available and the revenue that we have available, where there is at times very little discretion about how you apply those funds, and where you are going to try and target funds to giving people an extra helping hand, you want to get the best outcome, not just for those individuals but for the long run as well. That is where you need to look at the evidence. You need to see what is going to work the best. That is why some of those energy programs have really delivered significant gains in terms of reductions in costs for utilities. The idea that we should just have a blanket approach to some of the pressures people have with their living costs is just not sustainable.
MR SESELJA: A supplementary, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Mr Seselja.
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