❓ Question regarding unpaid wages in the Balga Works Program. The Minister deflects, citing a police investigation and criticising the opposition's financial management.
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BALGA WORKS PROGRAM
As a supplementary question, will the minister pay the unpaid wages of these people or not? Mr M. McGOWAN
As a supplementary question, will the minister pay the unpaid wages of these people or not? Mr M. McGOWAN
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The case is subject to investigation by the police. I will await that investigation and whatever findings that are made. If any other external bodies that I am unaware of are investigating this matter, I will await those findings. The opposition is profligate with public funds; it has come up with $16 billion worth of unfunded proposals and thinks that they will be all right. That is the opposition’s attitude to spending public funds. This government is sensible and responsible. We will pay money when we are liable, not just because members opposite want to create a political issue.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied: The case is subject to investigation by the police. I will await that investigation and whatever findings that are made. If any other external bodies that I am unaware of are investigating this matter, I will await those findings. The opposition is profligate with public funds; it has come up with $16 billion worth of unfunded proposals and thinks that they will be all right. That is the opposition’s attitude to spending public funds. This government is sensible and responsible. We will pay money when we are liable, not just because members opposite want to create a political issue.
The case is subject to investigation by the police. I will await that investigation and whatever findings that are made. If any other external bodies that I am unaware of are investigating this matter, I will await those findings. The opposition is profligate with public funds; it has come up with $16 billion worth of unfunded proposals and thinks that they will be all right. That is the opposition’s attitude to spending public funds. This government is sensible and responsible. We will pay money when we are liable, not just because members opposite want to create a political issue.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied: The case is subject to investigation by the police. I will await that investigation and whatever findings that are made. If any other external bodies that I am unaware of are investigating this matter, I will await those findings. The opposition is profligate with public funds; it has come up with $16 billion worth of unfunded proposals and thinks that they will be all right. That is the opposition’s attitude to spending public funds. This government is sensible and responsible. We will pay money when we are liable, not just because members opposite want to create a political issue.
The case is subject to investigation by the police. I will await that investigation and whatever findings that are made. If any other external bodies that I am unaware of are investigating this matter, I will await those findings. The opposition is profligate with public funds; it has come up with $16 billion worth of unfunded proposals and thinks that they will be all right. That is the opposition’s attitude to spending public funds. This government is sensible and responsible. We will pay money when we are liable, not just because members opposite want to create a political issue.
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