❓ Ms Baker questions the allocation of mosquito management program funds, specifically regarding Maylands. The Minister explains the funding distribution, prioritising areas with the greatest need and outlining a potential aerial spraying program expansion.
AnsweredQoN 728Legislative Assembly
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MOSQUITO MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS — MAYLANDS
728. Ms L.L. BAKER to the Minister for
Health:
The minister has just described $1 million
a year going into the treatment program for mosquitoes. Can the minister please
tell me how much of that is going specifically to Maylands and how much is
going to other electorates as well?
728. Ms L.L. BAKER to the Minister for
Health:
The minister has just described $1 million
a year going into the treatment program for mosquitoes. Can the minister please
tell me how much of that is going specifically to Maylands and how much is
going to other electorates as well?
AnswerView source ↗
I can tell the member that a lot
more is going into the Peel region than is going into Maylands; I am sorry to
tell her that. This additional $1 million has two components. There is an —
Mr
P.T. Miles interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Wanneroo —
Ms
L.L. BAKER : Supplementary —
The
SPEAKER : — I call you to order for the first time. There is a
buzzing noise.
Dr
K.D. HAMES : Mr Speaker, it was somewhat amusing because the member was
standing, asking her supplementary, when she had not even heard the answer to
the first part of the question.
There are two components to that funding of $1 million a
year. An amount of $800 000 will go towards increasing the spraying through the
Contiguous Local Authorities Group program, and there are some additional staff
as part of that, and $200 000 will go into research. The research money is yet
to be allocated, but we are in the process of getting ready for expressions of
interest. The $800 000 is not going to a specific council area or region; it
will go where it is needed, including to Maylands. It will not go to local
governments; it will be part of the CLAG system that already funds, through
councils, the management of mosquitoes.
I have had a meeting with the mayor
and the staff from the City of Bayswater, who manage Maylands. They put forward
a request for specific funds, and I said that would not be forthcoming, but
there would be funds for Maylands as part of the CLAG program. One particular
area of concern that they had was the inability to spray some areas of Maylands
from the air. They fund people on the ground to do the spraying. They cannot
get into some specific areas with aerial sprays—for example, where the
police depot is, around the boat launch ramp, where there is excellent bream
fishing just down from the edge. Currently, the City of South Perth has an
aerial spraying program. Our suggestion is that part of that funding should
provide additional funds for that helicopter, so that it can work with the
councils of South Perth, Bayswater, Belmont—covering all that area on
the other side of Ascot—and Bassendean, and we can cover that whole
stretch of the river with increased aerial spraying, using helicopters.
The short answer, after a long
answer, is that the funding goes where it is needed. So, wherever there are
increased mosquito problems throughout the year, the funding will go to that
location, and it will vary region by region and council by council every year,
depending on the severity of the problem in that area.
more is going into the Peel region than is going into Maylands; I am sorry to
tell her that. This additional $1 million has two components. There is an —
Mr
P.T. Miles interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Wanneroo —
Ms
L.L. BAKER : Supplementary —
The
SPEAKER : — I call you to order for the first time. There is a
buzzing noise.
Dr
K.D. HAMES : Mr Speaker, it was somewhat amusing because the member was
standing, asking her supplementary, when she had not even heard the answer to
the first part of the question.
There are two components to that funding of $1 million a
year. An amount of $800 000 will go towards increasing the spraying through the
Contiguous Local Authorities Group program, and there are some additional staff
as part of that, and $200 000 will go into research. The research money is yet
to be allocated, but we are in the process of getting ready for expressions of
interest. The $800 000 is not going to a specific council area or region; it
will go where it is needed, including to Maylands. It will not go to local
governments; it will be part of the CLAG system that already funds, through
councils, the management of mosquitoes.
I have had a meeting with the mayor
and the staff from the City of Bayswater, who manage Maylands. They put forward
a request for specific funds, and I said that would not be forthcoming, but
there would be funds for Maylands as part of the CLAG program. One particular
area of concern that they had was the inability to spray some areas of Maylands
from the air. They fund people on the ground to do the spraying. They cannot
get into some specific areas with aerial sprays—for example, where the
police depot is, around the boat launch ramp, where there is excellent bream
fishing just down from the edge. Currently, the City of South Perth has an
aerial spraying program. Our suggestion is that part of that funding should
provide additional funds for that helicopter, so that it can work with the
councils of South Perth, Bayswater, Belmont—covering all that area on
the other side of Ascot—and Bassendean, and we can cover that whole
stretch of the river with increased aerial spraying, using helicopters.
The short answer, after a long
answer, is that the funding goes where it is needed. So, wherever there are
increased mosquito problems throughout the year, the funding will go to that
location, and it will vary region by region and council by council every year,
depending on the severity of the problem in that area.
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