Page 818 - Week 03 - Thursday, 2 April 2020
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public transport initiatives; the fit-out of some leased office buildings for various agencies; the new Woden bus depot; the funding for the work health and safety regulator, establishing WorkSafe ACT as an independent entity and increasing the number of WorkSafe ACT inspectors, which will be important to safely manage the construction sector in particular during this period; and the expansion of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander functional family therapy child welfare program, to be delivered by OzChild in partnership with Gugan Gulwan. They are important initiatives.
We have the sustainable energy policy initiatives and accelerating work on the licensing scheme for property developers and the building regulation reform program. On the capital injection side, the smart technology ticketing system for integrated public transport is an important project to continue during this time, as is the new cloud-based digital platform to deliver more efficient customer services, as clearly at the moment a lot of government transactions are taking place online. The other important initiative to highlight is the provision of on-call forensic medical services for ACT Policing. Additional funding will support services such as medical assessments for people in custody, and coronial and criminal investigations.
In conclusion, I thank the public accounts committee for its time and commend the bill to the Assembly, noting that I will be moving the amendments circulated in my name and providing the supplementary explanatory statement in the detail stage of debate.
THE SPEAKER: Are you tabling a response to the public accounts committee?
MR BARR: I present the following paper:
Public Accounts—Standing Committee—Report 10—Inquiry into the Appropriation Bill 2019-2020 (No 2)—Interim Government response, dated April 2020.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Detail stage
Bill, by leave, taken as a whole.
MR BARR (Kurrajong—Chief Minister, Treasurer, Minister for Social Inclusion and Equality, Minister for Tourism and Special Events and Minister for Trade, Industry and Investment) (5.26): I seek leave to move amendments that have not been considered by the scrutiny committee.
Leave granted.
MR BARR: I move amendments Nos 1 to 5 circulated in my name together [see schedule 3 at page 822]. I table the supplementary explanatory statement to the amendments and present the following paper:
Budget 2019-2020—Financial Management Act, pursuant to section 13—Amended Supplementary Budget Papers.
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