❓ Hon Peter Foss questions the Minister for Forestry and Fisheries about the impact of delayed timber resource allocation announcements and the exit package on industry participants, particularly those in weak financial positions. The Minister acknowledges the pressure but denies the delay is a deliberate policy to encourage exits.
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(1) Does the minister understand that the longer the Government delays in announcing the allocation of timber resources, the greater the financial pressure applied to persons who need to know what allocations will be made? (2) Does he understand that the pressure will be greater upon those whose financial position is weak? (3) Does he understand that this will constitute an incentive to those persons to exit the industry and take the industry exit package? (4) Does he understand that his statement that the exit package will reduce with time, increases that pressure? (5) In view of the fact that each exit will make more possible the implementation of the Richardson proposal, is this delay and this announcement on the exit package, a deliberate policy on the part of the Government; if not, what action is the minister taking to prevent this financial pressure occurring unequally? Hon KIM CHANCE
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(1)-(4) Yes. (5) No, because the chances of the exit provisions reducing will not occur until much later in the year, probably October.
(2) Does he understand that the pressure will be greater upon those whose financial position is weak? (3) Does he understand that this will constitute an incentive to those persons to exit the industry and take the industry exit package? (4) Does he understand that his statement that the exit package will reduce with time, increases that pressure? (5) In view of the fact that each exit will make more possible the implementation of the Richardson proposal, is this delay and this announcement on the exit package, a deliberate policy on the part of the Government; if not, what action is the minister taking to prevent this financial pressure occurring unequally? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: (1)-(4) Yes. (5) No, because the chances of the exit provisions reducing will not occur until much later in the year, probably October.
(3) Does he understand that this will constitute an incentive to those persons to exit the industry and take the industry exit package? (4) Does he understand that his statement that the exit package will reduce with time, increases that pressure? (5) In view of the fact that each exit will make more possible the implementation of the Richardson proposal, is this delay and this announcement on the exit package, a deliberate policy on the part of the Government; if not, what action is the minister taking to prevent this financial pressure occurring unequally? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: (1)-(4) Yes. (5) No, because the chances of the exit provisions reducing will not occur until much later in the year, probably October.
(4) Does he understand that his statement that the exit package will reduce with time, increases that pressure? (5) In view of the fact that each exit will make more possible the implementation of the Richardson proposal, is this delay and this announcement on the exit package, a deliberate policy on the part of the Government; if not, what action is the minister taking to prevent this financial pressure occurring unequally? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: (1)-(4) Yes. (5) No, because the chances of the exit provisions reducing will not occur until much later in the year, probably October.
(5) In view of the fact that each exit will make more possible the implementation of the Richardson proposal, is this delay and this announcement on the exit package, a deliberate policy on the part of the Government; if not, what action is the minister taking to prevent this financial pressure occurring unequally? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: (1)-(4) Yes. (5) No, because the chances of the exit provisions reducing will not occur until much later in the year, probably October.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied: (1)-(4) Yes. (5) No, because the chances of the exit provisions reducing will not occur until much later in the year, probably October.
(1)-(4) Yes. (5) No, because the chances of the exit provisions reducing will not occur until much later in the year, probably October.
(5) No, because the chances of the exit provisions reducing will not occur until much later in the year, probably October.
(2) Does he understand that the pressure will be greater upon those whose financial position is weak? (3) Does he understand that this will constitute an incentive to those persons to exit the industry and take the industry exit package? (4) Does he understand that his statement that the exit package will reduce with time, increases that pressure? (5) In view of the fact that each exit will make more possible the implementation of the Richardson proposal, is this delay and this announcement on the exit package, a deliberate policy on the part of the Government; if not, what action is the minister taking to prevent this financial pressure occurring unequally? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: (1)-(4) Yes. (5) No, because the chances of the exit provisions reducing will not occur until much later in the year, probably October.
(3) Does he understand that this will constitute an incentive to those persons to exit the industry and take the industry exit package? (4) Does he understand that his statement that the exit package will reduce with time, increases that pressure? (5) In view of the fact that each exit will make more possible the implementation of the Richardson proposal, is this delay and this announcement on the exit package, a deliberate policy on the part of the Government; if not, what action is the minister taking to prevent this financial pressure occurring unequally? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: (1)-(4) Yes. (5) No, because the chances of the exit provisions reducing will not occur until much later in the year, probably October.
(4) Does he understand that his statement that the exit package will reduce with time, increases that pressure? (5) In view of the fact that each exit will make more possible the implementation of the Richardson proposal, is this delay and this announcement on the exit package, a deliberate policy on the part of the Government; if not, what action is the minister taking to prevent this financial pressure occurring unequally? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: (1)-(4) Yes. (5) No, because the chances of the exit provisions reducing will not occur until much later in the year, probably October.
(5) In view of the fact that each exit will make more possible the implementation of the Richardson proposal, is this delay and this announcement on the exit package, a deliberate policy on the part of the Government; if not, what action is the minister taking to prevent this financial pressure occurring unequally? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: (1)-(4) Yes. (5) No, because the chances of the exit provisions reducing will not occur until much later in the year, probably October.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied: (1)-(4) Yes. (5) No, because the chances of the exit provisions reducing will not occur until much later in the year, probably October.
(1)-(4) Yes. (5) No, because the chances of the exit provisions reducing will not occur until much later in the year, probably October.
(5) No, because the chances of the exit provisions reducing will not occur until much later in the year, probably October.
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