Page 1363 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 13 May 2014
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provide support for the continuation of the return-to-work case management services for injured ACTPS employees.
There are provisions in relation to judges’ remuneration, including increased pension and retirement costs and costs associated with reducing backlog. This is an essential component of the functioning of the justice system and is required in accordance with Remuneration Tribunal decisions. A further $244,000 in expenses on behalf of the territory and $363,000 in capital injection appropriation are provided in addition to the $498,000 for the aforementioned tasks.
There is $487,000 for the infrastructure and finance advisory unit within the Chief Minister and Treasury Directorate. This unit has been established to support major infrastructure delivery in the territory, including responsibility for public-private partnerships. This is a vital role given the government’s commitment to a number of large infrastructure projects. There is $170,000 for a feasibility study on city to the lake and the new Canberra theatre, which will investigate the functional requirements, delivery options and a concept design.
A total of $14.563 million in capital injection appropriations is provided for in the bill. There is $7.46 million for construction to begin works on the Coombs P-6 school. This will be the first school in the Molonglo region and will accommodate around 700 students from preschool to year 6. There is an appropriation for the living Murray water entitlements to fulfil the commitments of the ACT under the living Murray initiative agreement of 2004. That is $2.968 million. There is $1.297 million for new ACT court facilities, providing funding for a public-private partnership enabling the redevelopment of the Supreme Court building. There is $1.177 million for the Alexander Maconochie Centre additional facilities, which will provide tender-ready documentation in preparation for construction. There is $520,000 for the West Basin public waterfront design project as part of city to the lake to allow the forward design of the public realm. The Exhibition Park Corporation loan, reflecting the full approved loan facility, is $450,000, due to an increase in the expected purchase price of block 799 to facilitate the provision of low-cost accommodation at Exhibition Park. And there is $328,000 for the ACT legislation register replacement and its supporting systems to reduce the risk of system failure, ensuring the system is fit for purpose and improving the security and integrity of information.
Finally, the bill provides appropriations for additional expenses of $7.884 million on behalf of the territory relating to ACT concessions program funding to meet an increase in eligible recipients and in the volume of claims—$3 million of this covers accrued expenses from 2012-13—and also covering the territorial component of judges’ remuneration and the territorial component of revised wage parameters for the Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate.
The funding contained in these bills is required in this current fiscal year to enable the building and transformation of our city and the delivery to the ACT community of a number of outcomes: a sustainably growing economy; the protection of jobs; the building of infrastructure for the future; the enabling of a vibrant cultural and social life for the city; and providing opportunity and care for all Canberrans, particularly those who are doing it tough.
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