❓ Mr Waldron asks about the emergency service volunteer fuel card scheme announced in Boddington. Mr Redman details the scheme's funding, beneficiaries, and purpose as recognition of volunteer contributions.
AnsweredQoN 724Legislative Assembly
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EMERGENCY SERVICES — VOLUNTEER FUEL CARD SCHEME
724. Mr T.K. WALDRON to the
Minister for Regional Development:
Can the minister please provide some details about the
emergency service volunteer fuel card scheme, which was announced in Boddington
in the Wagin electorate yesterday?
724. Mr T.K. WALDRON to the
Minister for Regional Development:
Can the minister please provide some details about the
emergency service volunteer fuel card scheme, which was announced in Boddington
in the Wagin electorate yesterday?
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Before I start, I would like to acknowledge Bryce Bamess, the
wonderful member for Warren–Blackwood in the student Parliament, who I
am sure held up a strong team for the regional members amongst the people in
the upstairs gallery today.
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Members!
Mr D.T. REDMAN : Yesterday was a fantastic day for volunteers in regional Western
Australia and periurban areas around the city, because in Boddington the
Minister for Emergency Services announced the volunteer fuel card, which was an
election commitment going into the 2013 election. It was hugely appropriate to
use Boddington as a launching place for that, given the recent very, very
tragic fires we had both in Boddington and Northcliffe. Some 100 volunteers
attended that from all around the state. There was huge support for coming
together at a time of need for a particular region to support putting out a
fire and hopefully reducing the level of risk.
The program is funded by $7.4 million of royalties for
regions funding and $228 000 from the consolidated account for those emergency
services groups around the state that have volunteers who do a huge amount to
help the state government support regional communities and periurban areas to
ensure we have an emergency service response. If we did not have those
volunteers, there would be a huge cost to the taxpayer and the government. The
groups included in the program are the bush fire brigades, volunteer fire and
rescue services, volunteer fire services, State Emergency Service, volunteer
emergency services, volunteer marine rescue and also St John Ambulance. The
program will be very similar to the Country Age Pension Fuel Card, with the
officer in charge of the group or brigade being responsible for the fuel card.
It will support the very great volunteer work done by the people who are part
of those brigades. We know they put in a huge amount of effort and their own
time, in some cases travelling huge distances, to support the volunteer effort,
and it is something we simply could not do without. This measure is not
designed to be any sort of compensation for their efforts; it is a recognition
of the huge contribution that volunteers make, and I am really proud that this
Liberal–National government is making a commitment to support those
volunteers whom we simply cannot do without.
wonderful member for Warren–Blackwood in the student Parliament, who I
am sure held up a strong team for the regional members amongst the people in
the upstairs gallery today.
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Members!
Mr D.T. REDMAN : Yesterday was a fantastic day for volunteers in regional Western
Australia and periurban areas around the city, because in Boddington the
Minister for Emergency Services announced the volunteer fuel card, which was an
election commitment going into the 2013 election. It was hugely appropriate to
use Boddington as a launching place for that, given the recent very, very
tragic fires we had both in Boddington and Northcliffe. Some 100 volunteers
attended that from all around the state. There was huge support for coming
together at a time of need for a particular region to support putting out a
fire and hopefully reducing the level of risk.
The program is funded by $7.4 million of royalties for
regions funding and $228 000 from the consolidated account for those emergency
services groups around the state that have volunteers who do a huge amount to
help the state government support regional communities and periurban areas to
ensure we have an emergency service response. If we did not have those
volunteers, there would be a huge cost to the taxpayer and the government. The
groups included in the program are the bush fire brigades, volunteer fire and
rescue services, volunteer fire services, State Emergency Service, volunteer
emergency services, volunteer marine rescue and also St John Ambulance. The
program will be very similar to the Country Age Pension Fuel Card, with the
officer in charge of the group or brigade being responsible for the fuel card.
It will support the very great volunteer work done by the people who are part
of those brigades. We know they put in a huge amount of effort and their own
time, in some cases travelling huge distances, to support the volunteer effort,
and it is something we simply could not do without. This measure is not
designed to be any sort of compensation for their efforts; it is a recognition
of the huge contribution that volunteers make, and I am really proud that this
Liberal–National government is making a commitment to support those
volunteers whom we simply cannot do without.
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