Page 2708 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 6 June 2012
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For an organisation that has a funding level of $400,000, the contribution, the co-payment, is $1,300. This is something that the community sector, over the long conversation that we got to to be able to fully fund the Fair Work Australia announcement, was certainly aware of, and it was certainly welcoming of the opportunity for these reforms.
MR SPEAKER: Ms Hunter, a supplementary.
MS HUNTER: Minister, is it correct that, of the various projects that the community sector investment fund is supporting, some relate to the ACT government’s review of its own contractual agreements and other processes, so it is to do with its own business?
MS BURCH: Yes, it is. It is absolutely looking at our government processes and our contracts that we have in place, to see how we can work in partnership with the community sector to reduce that unnecessary red tape or duplication of reporting or other processes. That would seem a very sensible way forward to coordinate that response—to work with the community—and we are looking forward to the community bringing forward examples of where that process can be reduced for them, to be refined, certainly, so their effort, their work, is on the pointy end of service delivery rather than on report recording.
MS BRESNAN: A supplementary.
MR SPEAKER: Ms Bresnan.
MS BRESNAN: Minister, will the efficiency dividend or other savings initiatives proposed in the budget affect the community sector?
MS BURCH: Certainly every agency in the government is looking to how they can better do business within the constraints they are facing. But we have committed to an increase to the community sector. There is 0.34 co-payment across a number of organisations, but it does not cover all. Organisations that get $150,000 or less are exempt, and certainly none of that contribution is from kinship or foster carer payments as well.
MRS DUNNE: A supplementary question, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Before you start, Mrs Dunne. Members, if we could just keep the ambient noise down. It is hard to hear the minister. Mrs Dunne, you have the floor.
MRS DUNNE: Minister, why is the government using this community sector efficiency dividend to help pay for increases in the cost of the equal pay case for the community sector?
MS BURCH: Mrs Dunne has got it completely wrong. We should not be surprised about that because she often does. We have committed to fully fund our share of the
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