Page 2643 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 11 August 2015
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unconscious for a long period. This family has become quite diligent about that. When they first complained it was fixed, but they have subsequently complained that there is, again, a build-up of debris in that place, but it has not been fixed the second time.
Ms Lawder has shown a thorough and scientific approach to dealing with fix my street and has had a very low rate of return. My office has been less scientific, but we do get a very low, almost non-existent, rate of return and our constituents regularly complain that they have already been to fix my street once or twice or three times already before they come to us. We are, in many cases, the approach of last resort, and it is time this government stopped kidding themselves that fix my street works and fixed fix my street.
MR BARR (Molonglo—Chief Minister, Treasurer, Minister for Economic Development, Minister for Urban Renewal and Minister for Tourism and Events) (8.11): I thank members for their contributions in relation to the Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate. The areas covered within this appropriation are quite significant, as a number of members have observed. This directorate was established on 7 July last year by combining the former Chief Minister and Treasury Directorate with the former economic development and commerce and works directorates.
Additional functions were transferred during the 2014-15 fiscal year or will come online in this current fiscal year to include artsACT and community facilities that were formerly part of the Community Services Directorate, childcare centres that were formerly part of the Education and Training Directorate, the Property Group that was formerly part of Territory and Municipal Services, the former Exhibition Park Corporation and, of course, as has been discussed, the newly established Access Canberra.
The role of the Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate is to lead the ACT public service and to provide strategic advice and supports principally to me as Chief Minister, Treasurer, Minister for Economic Development, Minister for Urban Renewal and Minister for Tourism and Events. But the directorate also provides advice and support to the Minister for Education and Training, the Minister for Racing and Gaming, the Minister for Sport and Recreation, the Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Workplace Safety and Industrial Relations, all of whom have made contributions during the debate this evening.
CMTEDD also provides advice and support to cabinet on policy development, territory budgeting and reporting, financial and economic policy, service delivery, whole-of-government programs and issues, high value and complex investment development proposals, sport and recreation policies and programs, tourism promotion, government business enterprises, taxation and revenue management and developing and guiding the land release program to ensure a sustainable return to the territory and sustainable economic growth.
There is a significant appropriation to this directorate in the 2015-16 fiscal year: $999,101,000 that comprises $411,730,000 for the net cost of outputs, $513,766,000 for capital injections and $73,605,000 for payments on behalf of the territory. A
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