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Tuesday, 13 August 2013 13 AUGUST 2013 www.hansard.act.gov.au Tuesday, 13 August 2013 Justice and Community Safety—Standing Committee ............................................ 2811 Estimates 2013-2014—Select Committee ............................................................... 2811 Construction and Energy Efficiency Legislation Amendment Bill 2013 ................ 2816 Estimates 2013-2014—Select Committee (Statement by Speaker) ......................... 2824 Standing orders—suspension ................................................................................... 2825 Appropriation Bill 2013-2014—allotment of time .................................................. 2825 Appropriation Bill 2013-2014 .................................................................................. 2826 Treasurer (Motion of no confidence) ....................................................................... 2827 Estimates 2013-2014—Select Committee (Statement by Speaker) ......................... 2849 Appropriation Bill 2013-2014 .................................................................................. 2850 Questions without notice: Budget—savings ........................................................................................... 2854 Transport—light rail ..................................................................................... 2855 Budget—surplus ........................................................................................... 2857 Government—tendering arrangements ......................................................... 2858 Visitors ..................................................................................................................... 2861 Questions without notice: Water—Murray-Darling Basin ..................................................................... 2861 Roads—Spofforth Street ............................................................................... 2863 Disability services—workers compensation premiums ............................... 2865 Women—trades ............................................................................................ 2866 Disability services—respite care .................................................................. 2868 Canberra Hospital—data centre .................................................................... 2869 Environment—strategic assessments ........................................................... 2870 Papers ....................................................................................................................... 2873 Financial Management Act—consolidated financial report .................................... 2873 Papers ....................................................................................................................... 2874 Appropriation Bill 2013-2014 .................................................................................. 2875 Adjournment: School Sport Australia national titles ........................................................... 2941 Work safety ................................................................................................... 2942 Youth—wills ................................................................................................ 2942 Property Council ACT awards ..................................................................... 2943 Schedule of amendments: Schedule 1: Construction and Energy Efficiency Legislation Amendment Bill 2013 .................................................................................................. 2945 Legislative Assembly for the ACT Tuesday, 13 August 2013 MADAM SPEAKER (Mrs Dunne) took the chair at 10 am and asked members to stand in silence and pray or reflect on their responsibilities to the people of the Australian Capital Territory. Justice and Community Safety—Standing Committee Scrutiny report 10 MR DOSZPOT (Molonglo): I present the following report: Justice and Community Safety (Legislative Scrutiny Role)—Standing Committee—Scrutiny Report 10, dated 12 August 2013, together with the relevant minutes of proceedings. I seek leave to make a brief statement. Leave granted. MR DOSZPOT: Scrutiny report 10 contains the committee’s comments on 142 pieces of subordinate legislation and four government responses. The report was circulated to members when the Assembly was not sitting. I commend the report to the Assembly. Estimates 2013-2014—Select Committee Report—government response MR BARR (Molonglo—Deputy Chief Minister, Treasurer, Minister for Economic Development, Minister for Sport and Recreation, Minister for Tourism and Events and Minister for Community Services) (10.01): I present the following paper: Estimates 2013-2014—Select Committee—Report—Appropriation Bill 2013- 2014 and Appropriation (Office of the Legislative Assembly) Bill 2013-2014— Government response, dated August 2013. I move: That the Assembly takes note of the paper. I present the government response to the report of the Select Committee on Estimates 2013-2014. I thank the committee and its support staff for its report on the Appropriation Bill 2013-14 and the Appropriation (Office of the Legislative Assembly) Bill 2013-2014. I would also like to acknowledge and thank the Centre for International Economics for its efforts and time put into providing an independent view of the 2013-14 territory budget. The government respects the role that is played by the Select Committee on Estimates in scrutinising its proposed expenditure. However, the government is also disappointed that the recommendations in the committee’s main report were unbalanced and unable to provide any useful guidance to the Assembly. 2811 13 August 2013 Legislative Assembly for the ACT The 2013-14 budget will build and transform Canberra, ensuring a prosperous and sustainable second century. The reforms and funding contained within the budget demonstrate the government’s commitment to expand and transform our economy, and to create opportunity and fairness for all Canberrans. This budget will ensure the territory remains a great place in which to live, work, study and do business, and will ensure that we grow and prosper in the long term. Although this budget continues to restructure our expenditure and revenue bases to make them more sustainable, the government has a clear goal of maintaining quality service delivery. The territory’s economy is set on the path for growth, using our solid and sustainable fiscal position as the basis for the funding of large, transformative programs, such as DisabilityCare Australia, the national education reform agreement, the University of Canberra public hospital, capital metro and the city to the lake project. These projects will not only transform how key services are delivered in our city; they will fundamentally alter the way we move around, and they will generate thousands of jobs in the process. More broadly, the budget will expand service delivery in health, education, emergency and municipal services, public transport, corrections and, importantly, for those in need. The budget also delivers on a number of election commitments and items contained within the parliamentary agreement. In our centenary year, this budget positions the territory to meet the financial and social challenges of the future. The estimates committee report presents 151 recommendations. In conjunction with the independent adviser’s report, it canvasses a significant number of matters contained within the budget. I will not take up the Assembly’s time now by working through each of the select committee’s recommendations. These are separately discussed in the response document which I have tabled here today. The government has generally accepted or noted the majority of recommendations included in the committee’s report. In our response the government has agreed to 28 recommendations, agreed in principle to nine, agreed in part to two, noted 78 recommendations, and not agreed to 34 recommendations. With the instances where recommendations were not agreed, the government has taken the time to assess what is being asked. In general terms the government has not agreed to several of the recommendations on the basis that detailed analysis or reviews, including those undertaken by independent bodies, have already been undertaken on the issues raised and, in some instances, this information is already publicly available; the suggested change or service has already been undertaken or sufficiently catered for; additional work or service provision in relation to some recommendations would result in unnecessary duplication of effort, or that existing policies address the issue raised; the recommendation does not align with current legislative practice; the recommendation makes statements or claims that are inaccurate, such as those in relation to elective surgery performance; or the recommendation requests a change that is beyond the remit of an individual’s—for example, a commissioner’s—or the Legislative Assembly’s jurisdiction or capacity. The reasons for each departure from the recommendations are detailed in each individual response. 2812 Legislative Assembly for the ACT 13 August 2013 The government acknowledges the findings of the Centre for International Economics report. I would like particularly to highlight the following findings. In relation to the territory’s economic forecasts, I note the centre concludes that the forecasts appear reasonable, including that gross state product, state final demand and employment growth forecasts are considered reasonable, inflation
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