Page 1027 - Week 03 - Thursday, 21 March 2019
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12 months then of course the circumstances will have changed and we can look at that. But we need to budget something. That is why we have put this provision forward.
We can and will evaluate its success and look at making further provision. You can just imagine, if we did this in an unbudgeted way, the questions in the estimates process. “The government has let this concession run away.”
Mr Coe interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Coe, please!
MR BARR: All those sorts of questions.
Mr Coe: Tell me another one that is capped.
MR BARR: We cap a lot of programs and we seek to set budgets.
Mr Coe interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Coe, I am not going to ask you again.
MR BARR: You cannot even finish a sentence when he is in this sort of mood. You just cannot. We are angry, obstinate Alistair. It is late on a Thursday afternoon.
MADAM SPEAKER: Use his proper title.
MR BARR: Indeed, it is not helping. I appreciate that there is no point in debating it any further with the Leader of the Opposition this afternoon but I do want to indicate on the public record that we are interested in this being successful and we will evaluate its success. If it achieves the goals outlined in the housing affordability strategy and the goals that we have all spoken about in the debate then of course we will consider expanding the program and will make budget provision for it.
MR PARTON (Brindabella) (6.04): I want to echo some of the concerns from Mr Coe. I do not really understand why we are capping it at 100 parcels. I have no comprehension of it, granted, but I would agree with the Chief Minister, who mentioned comments made by Ms Le Couteur, that if we got 30 properties in the first instance I would have said it was pretty successful.
But I am extremely worried about a number of limiting aspects of this, including the drop-dead date of 2021. When you look at the people who got on board with NRAS, the investors who got on board with NRAS, they did so with the certainty of something that was locked away for a hell of a lot of more than two years. And I just do not think that there is a great deal of certainty.
Mr Barr: Until your mob shut it down.
MR PARTON: Until my mob shut it down?
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