Page 3542 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 18 September 2019
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Minister and the Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability builds on our city’s leadership.
Inexperience means burying your head in the sand like the Leader of the Opposition. Experience means being able to tackle difficult issues like climate change while being able to prepare and respond to the threat of bushfires. Experience means investing in our experts and our agencies. Amongst the many things in this year’s budget was $2.2 million for helicopter services to enhance the early detection and suppression of bushfires in remote locations across the ACT and surrounding regions. Inexperience means voting against these investments.
Sport—controlled sports
MR MILLIGAN: My question is to the Minister for Sport and Recreation. Minister, output 3.3 of the 2019-20 budget has an expense item for controlled sports that shows that the net expense of these new regulations is expected to be $184,000 over four years whereas associated revenue is forecast at $422,000. Minister, what will the government be spending the additional $238,000 on, and will it be reinvested in combat sports?
MS BERRY: I thank Mr Milligan for the question. I will have to come back with some detail on the process involved when combat sports regulations are changed. Mr Milligan has been briefed significantly on changes to the combat sports legislation and how that program will be rolled out.
With regard to the costs and returns to government, I expect that there will be more to say about that, but it is not designed to be a revenue measure at all for the ACT government, rather to ensure that combat sport remains accessible and safe for everybody.
MR MILLIGAN: Minister, what modelling was used to show the revenue peaking in 2022-23 at $183,000?
MS BERRY: I will take that question on notice.
MISS C BURCH: Minister, what is the cost of outsourcing the inspectorate function to Sport and Recreation Victoria, and why don’t you trust ACT public servants to perform this function?
MS BERRY: It is not a matter of trust; it is a matter of expertise within other states and territories, and making sure that we have a system that can actually operate in an efficient way. It would be way more expensive to have an official employed in the ACT to regulate the number of activities that would occur in the ACT. A much better way is to employ the expertise of other states and territories to manage that work.
Clubs—government consultation
MR PARTON: My question is to the minister for regulatory services. On 28 June you tabled the Gaming Machine Amendment Regulation 2019 (No 1). During the drafting of this regulation how many clubs did you consult with?
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