Page 966 - Week 03 - Thursday, 21 March 2019
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I am excited to see what local industry can come up with through the EOI process. There really are no limits, with the funding available to a range of industries and organisations across the ACT.
MS CHEYNE: Minister, how will the future skills future jobs grant program also benefit the wider ACT economy while supporting businesses and employees?
MS FITZHARRIS: As members will be aware, the ACT higher education sector makes a huge contribution to Canberra’s economy and community across many areas. Vocational education and training is a crucial part of this. It contributes strongly to the development of innovation and skills in the workforce, and to meeting both the current and future needs of the local community and the ACT economy.
Quite simply, this program will contribute to the achievement of a highly skilled and productive workforce in the ACT, with workers equipped with the right skills for both current and future industry needs being a key ingredient for a strong and growing economy. The ACT government is committed to the continued development and growth of a highly skilled workforce in our capital.
This new program will help to get more people into apprenticeships by funding innovative projects that organisations can co-develop with ACT government and local industry. This collaborative approach will lead to more innovation in our local economy, meet the future skills needs of our city and boost the number of people in apprenticeships or other training programs.
ACT Health—performance reports
MR PARTON: My question is to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing. Minister, in your answer to question on notice 1910, which was about quarterly performance reports, you said that the reports for the period between December 2016 and June 2018 would be available on the ACT Health website by the end of 2018. You also said that the report for October to December 2018 would be available on the website within two months of the end of that quarter. As of today, none of these reports is available on the website. And, minister, reports for the first two quarters of 2016-17 are not there either. Minister, why have these reports not been published, as you stated in your answer to the question on notice?
MS FITZHARRIS: I thank Mr Parton for the question. Indeed, I have just had a discussion about the quarterly performance report for the December quarter 2018, and I look forward to that being released next week. It is a couple of weeks late. That was due in part to my absence for a period of time.
I will need to look back on that answer because my recollection was that we were going to publish the quarterly reports that had been suspended while the review was underway, with the December report, this year. I will just look at that question again to make sure—and I will correct the record—but I expect that when the December quarterly report is published those outstanding quarterly reports will be published at the same time.
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