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823 Questions and Answers 823 PARLIAMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY 1997-98 THIRD SESSION OF THE FIFTY-FIRST PARLIAMENT ___________________ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS No. 38 WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE 1998 ___________________ [The Questions and Answers Paper is published for each sitting day and will contain, by number and title, all unanswered questions, together with questions to which answers have been received on the previous sitting and any new questions. Consequently the full text of any question will be printed only twice: when notice is given; and, when answered.] 824 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Wednesday 3 June 1998 PUBLICATION OF QUESTION ANSWER TO BE LODGED BY Q. & A. No. 26 2 June 1998 (Including Question Nos 453 to 486) Q. & A. No. 27 3 June 1998 (Including Question Nos 487 to 512) Q. & A. No. 28 4 June 1998 (Including Question Nos 513 to 536) Q. & A. No. 29 9 June 1998 (Including Question Nos 537 to 545) Q. & A. No. 30 10 June 1998 (Including Question Nos 546 to 568) Q. & A. No. 31 11 June 1998 (Including Question Nos 569 to 583) Q. & A. No. 32 23 June 1998 (Including Question Nos 584 to 607) Q. & A. No. 33 24 June 1998 (Including Question Nos 608 to 629) Q. & A. No. 34 25 June 1998 (Including Question Nos 630 to 642) Q. & A. No. 35 30 June 1998 (Including Question Nos 643 to 658) Q. & A. No. 36 1 July 1998 (Including Question Nos 659 to 676) Q. & A. No. 37 2 July 1998 (Including Question Nos 677 to 691) Q. & A. No. 38 7 July 1998 (Including Question Nos 692 to 704) 825 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Wednesday 3 June 1998 Notice of Question given on the date shown 28 APRIL 1998 (Paper No. 26) *453 POLICE STATIONS AT UNGARIE AND WEST WYALONG—Mr Armstrong asked the Minister for Police— (1) What is the current authorised strength for the police station at Ungarie? (2) What is the current authorised strength for the police station at West Wyalong? (3) Of the above authorised positions, how many are unfilled and for what reason? (4) Since the beginning of 1998, what is the average number of hours each week that the Ungarie Police Station has been manned? (5) During the time when the station has been unmanned, what are the arrangements for attending emergencies in Ungarie and how many times have these arrangements been necessary? Answer— (1) and (2) It is impossible to accurately answer these questions in their current form as the honourable member has nominated police stations rather than Local Area Commands. (3) Not applicable, see (1) and (2). (4) and (5) The staffing arrangements of individual stations within Local Area Commands are a matter for the Local Area Commander and are determined according to need. Officers from the relevant Local Area Command police the entire area responding to and preventing crime. Other than this, to provide a detailed response to these questions would take considerable time and resources which are not warranted in view of the other priorities of the NSW Police Service. To provide answers to these questions would require police officers to check numerous records which would be extremely time consuming. This would be an unacceptable impost on New South Wales taxpayers. *454 ANTICIPATED LITIGATIONS—SOCOG—Mr Armstrong asked the Minister for the Olympics— (1) Does the Government have any current estimates for anticipated litigations against either SOCOG or any Government agency for disputes that may arise due to Sydney hosting the Olympic Games in 2000? (2) If so, what are those estimates? (3) If not, why not? (4) What mechanisms has the Government introduced that mandate the use of correct procedures in managing and resolving potential disputes that could arise from the Sydney Olympic Games? (5) How does the Government intend to deal with litigations arising from potential disputes such as, but not limited to, native title, ticketing, non-licensed goods, street vending, personal injury claims and substandard accommodation? (6) Given that SOCOG is to be wound down on or before 31 March 2002, what arrangements have been made to deal with ongoing disputes after this date? Answer— (1) No. (2) Not applicable. (3) to (6) The actual level of litigation that may involve SOCOG is impossible to accurately forecast. The Olympic Games generate a significant amount of commercial activity. Some of this activity is in 826 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Wednesday 3 June 1998 areas in which the law is very complex. The level of litigation, if any, will be dependent on a variety of factors. Neither SOCOG or the Government is in a position to control many of these factors and hence is not in a position to estimate the volume of litigations that may arise from the Olympic Games. However, both the OCA and SOCOG agree that it is possible to minimise the level and cost of disputation by implementing a dispute resolution system that prevents or manages disputation. Both have implemented such systems with arbitration or litigation as a last resort. In addition, in Sydney there are co-operative relationships of the stakeholders in the preparations for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Such relationships are the results of our existing dispute resolution mechanisms and labour laws which are quite different from those which exist in Los Angeles or Atlanta. Further, contrary to the statements made in the Altobelli Report, the actual cost and volume of litigation that arose as a result of the Atlanta Olympic Games was minimal. SOCOG has no reason to expect that the cost and volume of litigation arising from the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games will be anything other than minimal. *456 “NSW STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT, 1997”—Mr Cruickshank asked the Minister for the Environment— (1) In relation to the 500-page book prepared by the EPA titled “NSW State of the Environment, 1997”, how many copies of this book have been printed? (2) At what cost per book has this been done? Answer— (1) The Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has advised me that 2,200 copies of the 1997 State of the Environment Report have been printed. I am informed that the initial 1,200 copies were all distributed, requiring a further print-run of 1,000 copies to meet continued demand. I understand that the document is also available on the EPA’s internet website. The EPA is currently implementing a strategy for electronic publishing in order to give wider access to its publications and to reduce the amount of paper used in distributing information. (2) I am advised that the print cost per unit of the 1997 State of the Environment Report is $74.26 each. *457 COST REDUCTION—WORKCOVER—Ms Ficarra asked the Minister for Information Technology, Minister for Forestry, Minister for Ports and Minister Assisting the Premier on Western Sydney representing the Attorney General and Minister for Industrial Relations— What NSW Government initiatives have been introduced, or are proposed, to reduce costs to the NSW WorkCover scheme and so save jobs? Answer— In 1995, the Government inherited a WorkCover scheme in a state of serious financial difficulty following its neglect at the hands of the Liberal-National Coalition Government. Trends in the scheme’s claims experience, which became apparent in the early 1990s, were exacerbated by the actions of the previous Government in increasing the level of lump sum benefits for permanent impairment while maintaining premium rates at a level significantly lower than that required to fully fund the estimated future liabilities of the scheme. As a result, on coming into office in 1995, the Government was advised that claims costs were spiralling out of control and that the scheme, which had a reported surplus of over $1 billion only 2 years previously, was in serious financial trouble. 827 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Wednesday 3 June 1998 Since its election, the Carr Government has taken a series of significant and responsible legislative and administrative actions to turn around the financial performance of the scheme. Initially, the Government took the fiscally responsible decision to raise premium rates to an average of 2.5 per cent of wages. In addition, a legislative reform package was implemented to restrict access to key scheme cost drivers, including hearing loss and stress claims, and to suspend annual indexation of benefits levels for permanent disability. At the same time, penalties under workplace safety legislation were doubled to create a realistic deterrent to unsafe work practices. While these carefully targeted measures achieved considerable savings, the deteriorating claims experience trends that were ignored by the previous Government continued to worsen. As a result, the deficit continued to increase and the Government had to take further remedial action, including an increase in premiums to 2.8 per cent from July 1996. In addition, the Government recognised the need for all stakeholders in the scheme to come together to identify workable long-term solutions that would restore the scheme to a fully funded position and reduce premiums to a competitive level. To this end, a Tripartite Working Party with representatives of employers, employees, the insurance industry and legal and medical service provider groups was convened as a forum to identify further cost saving measures. A further reform package was introduced to Parliament in 1996 which included a reduction in lump sums for permanent disability, in effect to the levels prevailing in other states; limiting claims to where work was a “substantial contributing factor” to the injury; and a review of entitlement to continued weekly compensation after 2 years. In addition, on the basis of a report by Sir Laurence Street, an independent pilot conciliation service was established in April 1997 to reduce unnecessary litigation and consequent legal costs.
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