Page 2732 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 13 August 2019
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Estimates 2019-2020—Select Committee
Report—government response
MR BARR (Kurrajong—Chief Minister, Treasurer, Minister for Social Inclusion and Equality, Minister for Tertiary Education, Minister for Tourism and Special Events and Minister for Trade, Industry and Investment) (10.27): Madam Speaker, for the information of members, I present the following paper:
Estimates 2019-2020—Select Committee—Report—Appropriation Bill 2019-2020 and Appropriation (Office of the Legislative Assembly) Bill 2019-2020—Government response, dated August 2019.
I move:
That the Assembly take note of the paper.
I thank the committee for its analysis of the 2019-20 budget and its report on the appropriation bills. I note that it has been ably supported by its secretariat team in preparation of the report. I acknowledge this morning the collegiate manner in which the committee conducted its hearings and thank the committee, the secretariat, my ministerial colleagues and all of the government officials for their active engagement in responding to the committee’s investigations. The government respects and values the important role played by the select committee in scrutinising the proposed expenditure.
Madam Speaker, to the relief of many, I am sure, I will not respond verbally to each of the 207 recommendations in this speech this morning. The government’s response that I have just tabled fulfils that purpose. In summary, the government has agreed to 90 recommendations, agreed in principle to 45 and in part to two, noted 62 and not agreed to seven. There was one recommendation that related to a government initiative that has ceased, so it is not possible to respond to that.
In summary, I do not consider that the report of the estimates committee raises any issues that would prevent the passage of the Appropriation Bill or the Appropriation (Office of the Legislative Assembly) Bill. On behalf of the government, I thank the committee for its detailed scrutiny of the budget and the accompanying appropriation and for its report. I have presented the government’s response to the Assembly. We can now look forward to two weeks of detailed debate on the budget.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Estimates 2019-2020—Select Committee
Response
MADAM SPEAKER: For the information of members, I present the following paper:
Estimates 2019-2020—Select Committee—Report—Appropriation Bill 2019-2020 and Appropriation (Office of the Legislative Assembly) Bill 2019-2020—Speaker’s response to Recommendations 16, 17 and 18, dated 12 August 2019.
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