Page 41 - Week 01 - Tuesday, 12 February 2019
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I support my colleague the Minister for Vocational Education and Skills on this change and commend the bill to the Assembly.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
Sitting suspended from 11.49 am to 2.00 pm.
Ministerial arrangements
MR BARR: As members would be aware, Minister Fitzharris is away ill from the Assembly this week. Minister Rattenbury will take questions in the health portfolio, Minister Steel in the transport portfolio and Minister Stephen-Smith in the higher education portfolio.
Questions without notice
Economy—asset recycling
MR COE: Madam Speaker, my question is to the Chief Minister, particularly in his capacity as Treasurer. Mr Barr, in relation to the asset recycling initiative, what public housing and other items are yet to be put on the market?
MR BARR: I thank the Leader of the Opposition for his question; and welcome back, everyone, to a happy new parliamentary year. There are, I believe, a small number of properties that were part of the agreement with the then Abbott government that have not yet gone to market. I will need to take on notice the exact block and section numbers. But I can report that the asset recycling program is largely complete. It closes in the middle of this calendar year.
MR COE: Treasurer, when do you expect all of these to be sold and the revenue received? Noting the deadline of 30 June, but could they be done earlier?
MR BARR: The process works in two ways: we would not receive our payments from the commonwealth until the completion of the asset sales. So the finalisation of the territory’s transactions with the commonwealth, I imagine, would extend into the second half of this calendar year and possibly may even go into the next financial year, depending on when the commonwealth settles its payments. But our expectation would be that if we meet the 30 June deadlines then we will of course receive the proceeds from the asset sales and the commonwealth bonus would then come subsequently.
MR PARTON: Treasurer, how much revenue will be forgone if sales are unable to be completed this financial year?
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