❓ Mr. Porter questions the Minister for Energy regarding the timing of the release of a report on Verve Energy and the government's response to recommended electricity tariff increases. The Minister deflects, referencing previous answers and newspaper articles.
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VERVE ENERGY — RELEASE OF REPORT
My question is to the Minister for Energy. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Dawesville to order. Mr C.C. PORTER : I refer to the Premier’s statement in Parliament last week on the timing of the release of the report on Verve Energy, when he said — . . . I will be completely open and honest . . . When I have the information, it will be released. (1) When exactly did the government receive the electricity retail market review from the Office of Energy? (2) Will the minister repeat, for the record, the claim that government bureaucrats worked through the night on Thursday evening to produce the government’s modified figures for the increases in residential tariffs? (3) Can the minister explain why, on this decision, which involves expenditure of $1 billion and which will affect every family in Western Australia, and on his present version of the timing, he took only a few hours to come up with his response to the report? Mr F.M. LOGAN
My question is to the Minister for Energy. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Dawesville to order. Mr C.C. PORTER : I refer to the Premier’s statement in Parliament last week on the timing of the release of the report on Verve Energy, when he said — . . . I will be completely open and honest . . . When I have the information, it will be released. (1) When exactly did the government receive the electricity retail market review from the Office of Energy? (2) Will the minister repeat, for the record, the claim that government bureaucrats worked through the night on Thursday evening to produce the government’s modified figures for the increases in residential tariffs? (3) Can the minister explain why, on this decision, which involves expenditure of $1 billion and which will affect every family in Western Australia, and on his present version of the timing, he took only a few hours to come up with his response to the report? Mr F.M. LOGAN
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(1)-(3) I will take the member back—the member should have dug this out before he asked the question—to the answer that I gave the member for Darling Range, and I will read it out verbatim for the member. The member for Darling Range asked me about receiving the report, and I said — I have not received the final report. I hope to receive the final report this week. When I receive the final report, I will take it to my colleagues the Premier and Treasurer, and we will discuss the time frame for releasing the report. Mr C.C. Porter : So when did you get it? Mr F.M. LOGAN : That is what we said. In answer to that question, I was referring to a newspaper article that stated I had received the draft report the previous Friday. I received the draft report the previous Friday, and I told the member that I expected to receive the final report. As the Premier has told this house—it was in the newspaper the previous week—when we received the final report, it did not have the consultants’ figures in it. It was all in the newspaper before the member for Darling Range even asked the question. Those final figures came out on Thursday, and the Premier took them to the people; that is, what was recommended and what the Premier and the Treasurer believed should be applied, being the 10 per cent from July 2009. It is as simple as that.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Dawesville to order. Mr C.C. PORTER : I refer to the Premier’s statement in Parliament last week on the timing of the release of the report on Verve Energy, when he said — . . . I will be completely open and honest . . . When I have the information, it will be released. (1) When exactly did the government receive the electricity retail market review from the Office of Energy? (2) Will the minister repeat, for the record, the claim that government bureaucrats worked through the night on Thursday evening to produce the government’s modified figures for the increases in residential tariffs? (3) Can the minister explain why, on this decision, which involves expenditure of $1 billion and which will affect every family in Western Australia, and on his present version of the timing, he took only a few hours to come up with his response to the report? Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: (1)-(3) I will take the member back—the member should have dug this out before he asked the question—to the answer that I gave the member for Darling Range, and I will read it out verbatim for the member. The member for Darling Range asked me about receiving the report, and I said — I have not received the final report. I hope to receive the final report this week. When I receive the final report, I will take it to my colleagues the Premier and Treasurer, and we will discuss the time frame for releasing the report. Mr C.C. Porter : So when did you get it? Mr F.M. LOGAN : That is what we said. In answer to that question, I was referring to a newspaper article that stated I had received the draft report the previous Friday. I received the draft report the previous Friday, and I told the member that I expected to receive the final report. As the Premier has told this house—it was in the newspaper the previous week—when we received the final report, it did not have the consultants’ figures in it. It was all in the newspaper before the member for Darling Range even asked the question. Those final figures came out on Thursday, and the Premier took them to the people; that is, what was recommended and what the Premier and the Treasurer believed should be applied, being the 10 per cent from July 2009. It is as simple as that.
The SPEAKER : I call the member for Dawesville to order. Mr C.C. PORTER : I refer to the Premier’s statement in Parliament last week on the timing of the release of the report on Verve Energy, when he said — . . . I will be completely open and honest . . . When I have the information, it will be released. (1) When exactly did the government receive the electricity retail market review from the Office of Energy? (2) Will the minister repeat, for the record, the claim that government bureaucrats worked through the night on Thursday evening to produce the government’s modified figures for the increases in residential tariffs? (3) Can the minister explain why, on this decision, which involves expenditure of $1 billion and which will affect every family in Western Australia, and on his present version of the timing, he took only a few hours to come up with his response to the report? Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: (1)-(3) I will take the member back—the member should have dug this out before he asked the question—to the answer that I gave the member for Darling Range, and I will read it out verbatim for the member. The member for Darling Range asked me about receiving the report, and I said — I have not received the final report. I hope to receive the final report this week. When I receive the final report, I will take it to my colleagues the Premier and Treasurer, and we will discuss the time frame for releasing the report. Mr C.C. Porter : So when did you get it? Mr F.M. LOGAN : That is what we said. In answer to that question, I was referring to a newspaper article that stated I had received the draft report the previous Friday. I received the draft report the previous Friday, and I told the member that I expected to receive the final report. As the Premier has told this house—it was in the newspaper the previous week—when we received the final report, it did not have the consultants’ figures in it. It was all in the newspaper before the member for Darling Range even asked the question. Those final figures came out on Thursday, and the Premier took them to the people; that is, what was recommended and what the Premier and the Treasurer believed should be applied, being the 10 per cent from July 2009. It is as simple as that.
Mr C.C. PORTER : I refer to the Premier’s statement in Parliament last week on the timing of the release of the report on Verve Energy, when he said — . . . I will be completely open and honest . . . When I have the information, it will be released. (1) When exactly did the government receive the electricity retail market review from the Office of Energy? (2) Will the minister repeat, for the record, the claim that government bureaucrats worked through the night on Thursday evening to produce the government’s modified figures for the increases in residential tariffs? (3) Can the minister explain why, on this decision, which involves expenditure of $1 billion and which will affect every family in Western Australia, and on his present version of the timing, he took only a few hours to come up with his response to the report? Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: (1)-(3) I will take the member back—the member should have dug this out before he asked the question—to the answer that I gave the member for Darling Range, and I will read it out verbatim for the member. The member for Darling Range asked me about receiving the report, and I said — I have not received the final report. I hope to receive the final report this week. When I receive the final report, I will take it to my colleagues the Premier and Treasurer, and we will discuss the time frame for releasing the report. Mr C.C. Porter : So when did you get it? Mr F.M. LOGAN : That is what we said. In answer to that question, I was referring to a newspaper article that stated I had received the draft report the previous Friday. I received the draft report the previous Friday, and I told the member that I expected to receive the final report. As the Premier has told this house—it was in the newspaper the previous week—when we received the final report, it did not have the consultants’ figures in it. It was all in the newspaper before the member for Darling Range even asked the question. Those final figures came out on Thursday, and the Premier took them to the people; that is, what was recommended and what the Premier and the Treasurer believed should be applied, being the 10 per cent from July 2009. It is as simple as that.
(2) Will the minister repeat, for the record, the claim that government bureaucrats worked through the night on Thursday evening to produce the government’s modified figures for the increases in residential tariffs? (3) Can the minister explain why, on this decision, which involves expenditure of $1 billion and which will affect every family in Western Australia, and on his present version of the timing, he took only a few hours to come up with his response to the report? Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: (1)-(3) I will take the member back—the member should have dug this out before he asked the question—to the answer that I gave the member for Darling Range, and I will read it out verbatim for the member. The member for Darling Range asked me about receiving the report, and I said — I have not received the final report. I hope to receive the final report this week. When I receive the final report, I will take it to my colleagues the Premier and Treasurer, and we will discuss the time frame for releasing the report. Mr C.C. Porter : So when did you get it? Mr F.M. LOGAN : That is what we said. In answer to that question, I was referring to a newspaper article that stated I had received the draft report the previous Friday. I received the draft report the previous Friday, and I told the member that I expected to receive the final report. As the Premier has told this house—it was in the newspaper the previous week—when we received the final report, it did not have the consultants’ figures in it. It was all in the newspaper before the member for Darling Range even asked the question. Those final figures came out on Thursday, and the Premier took them to the people; that is, what was recommended and what the Premier and the Treasurer believed should be applied, being the 10 per cent from July 2009. It is as simple as that.
(3) Can the minister explain why, on this decision, which involves expenditure of $1 billion and which will affect every family in Western Australia, and on his present version of the timing, he took only a few hours to come up with his response to the report? Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: (1)-(3) I will take the member back—the member should have dug this out before he asked the question—to the answer that I gave the member for Darling Range, and I will read it out verbatim for the member. The member for Darling Range asked me about receiving the report, and I said — I have not received the final report. I hope to receive the final report this week. When I receive the final report, I will take it to my colleagues the Premier and Treasurer, and we will discuss the time frame for releasing the report. Mr C.C. Porter : So when did you get it? Mr F.M. LOGAN : That is what we said. In answer to that question, I was referring to a newspaper article that stated I had received the draft report the previous Friday. I received the draft report the previous Friday, and I told the member that I expected to receive the final report. As the Premier has told this house—it was in the newspaper the previous week—when we received the final report, it did not have the consultants’ figures in it. It was all in the newspaper before the member for Darling Range even asked the question. Those final figures came out on Thursday, and the Premier took them to the people; that is, what was recommended and what the Premier and the Treasurer believed should be applied, being the 10 per cent from July 2009. It is as simple as that.
Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: (1)-(3) I will take the member back—the member should have dug this out before he asked the question—to the answer that I gave the member for Darling Range, and I will read it out verbatim for the member. The member for Darling Range asked me about receiving the report, and I said — I have not received the final report. I hope to receive the final report this week. When I receive the final report, I will take it to my colleagues the Premier and Treasurer, and we will discuss the time frame for releasing the report. Mr C.C. Porter : So when did you get it? Mr F.M. LOGAN : That is what we said. In answer to that question, I was referring to a newspaper article that stated I had received the draft report the previous Friday. I received the draft report the previous Friday, and I told the member that I expected to receive the final report. As the Premier has told this house—it was in the newspaper the previous week—when we received the final report, it did not have the consultants’ figures in it. It was all in the newspaper before the member for Darling Range even asked the question. Those final figures came out on Thursday, and the Premier took them to the people; that is, what was recommended and what the Premier and the Treasurer believed should be applied, being the 10 per cent from July 2009. It is as simple as that.
(1)-(3) I will take the member back—the member should have dug this out before he asked the question—to the answer that I gave the member for Darling Range, and I will read it out verbatim for the member. The member for Darling Range asked me about receiving the report, and I said — I have not received the final report. I hope to receive the final report this week. When I receive the final report, I will take it to my colleagues the Premier and Treasurer, and we will discuss the time frame for releasing the report. Mr C.C. Porter : So when did you get it? Mr F.M. LOGAN : That is what we said. In answer to that question, I was referring to a newspaper article that stated I had received the draft report the previous Friday. I received the draft report the previous Friday, and I told the member that I expected to receive the final report. As the Premier has told this house—it was in the newspaper the previous week—when we received the final report, it did not have the consultants’ figures in it. It was all in the newspaper before the member for Darling Range even asked the question. Those final figures came out on Thursday, and the Premier took them to the people; that is, what was recommended and what the Premier and the Treasurer believed should be applied, being the 10 per cent from July 2009. It is as simple as that.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : That is what we said. In answer to that question, I was referring to a newspaper article that stated I had received the draft report the previous Friday. I received the draft report the previous Friday, and I told the member that I expected to receive the final report. As the Premier has told this house—it was in the newspaper the previous week—when we received the final report, it did not have the consultants’ figures in it. It was all in the newspaper before the member for Darling Range even asked the question. Those final figures came out on Thursday, and the Premier took them to the people; that is, what was recommended and what the Premier and the Treasurer believed should be applied, being the 10 per cent from July 2009. It is as simple as that.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Dawesville to order. Mr C.C. PORTER : I refer to the Premier’s statement in Parliament last week on the timing of the release of the report on Verve Energy, when he said — . . . I will be completely open and honest . . . When I have the information, it will be released. (1) When exactly did the government receive the electricity retail market review from the Office of Energy? (2) Will the minister repeat, for the record, the claim that government bureaucrats worked through the night on Thursday evening to produce the government’s modified figures for the increases in residential tariffs? (3) Can the minister explain why, on this decision, which involves expenditure of $1 billion and which will affect every family in Western Australia, and on his present version of the timing, he took only a few hours to come up with his response to the report? Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: (1)-(3) I will take the member back—the member should have dug this out before he asked the question—to the answer that I gave the member for Darling Range, and I will read it out verbatim for the member. The member for Darling Range asked me about receiving the report, and I said — I have not received the final report. I hope to receive the final report this week. When I receive the final report, I will take it to my colleagues the Premier and Treasurer, and we will discuss the time frame for releasing the report. Mr C.C. Porter : So when did you get it? Mr F.M. LOGAN : That is what we said. In answer to that question, I was referring to a newspaper article that stated I had received the draft report the previous Friday. I received the draft report the previous Friday, and I told the member that I expected to receive the final report. As the Premier has told this house—it was in the newspaper the previous week—when we received the final report, it did not have the consultants’ figures in it. It was all in the newspaper before the member for Darling Range even asked the question. Those final figures came out on Thursday, and the Premier took them to the people; that is, what was recommended and what the Premier and the Treasurer believed should be applied, being the 10 per cent from July 2009. It is as simple as that.
The SPEAKER : I call the member for Dawesville to order. Mr C.C. PORTER : I refer to the Premier’s statement in Parliament last week on the timing of the release of the report on Verve Energy, when he said — . . . I will be completely open and honest . . . When I have the information, it will be released. (1) When exactly did the government receive the electricity retail market review from the Office of Energy? (2) Will the minister repeat, for the record, the claim that government bureaucrats worked through the night on Thursday evening to produce the government’s modified figures for the increases in residential tariffs? (3) Can the minister explain why, on this decision, which involves expenditure of $1 billion and which will affect every family in Western Australia, and on his present version of the timing, he took only a few hours to come up with his response to the report? Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: (1)-(3) I will take the member back—the member should have dug this out before he asked the question—to the answer that I gave the member for Darling Range, and I will read it out verbatim for the member. The member for Darling Range asked me about receiving the report, and I said — I have not received the final report. I hope to receive the final report this week. When I receive the final report, I will take it to my colleagues the Premier and Treasurer, and we will discuss the time frame for releasing the report. Mr C.C. Porter : So when did you get it? Mr F.M. LOGAN : That is what we said. In answer to that question, I was referring to a newspaper article that stated I had received the draft report the previous Friday. I received the draft report the previous Friday, and I told the member that I expected to receive the final report. As the Premier has told this house—it was in the newspaper the previous week—when we received the final report, it did not have the consultants’ figures in it. It was all in the newspaper before the member for Darling Range even asked the question. Those final figures came out on Thursday, and the Premier took them to the people; that is, what was recommended and what the Premier and the Treasurer believed should be applied, being the 10 per cent from July 2009. It is as simple as that.
Mr C.C. PORTER : I refer to the Premier’s statement in Parliament last week on the timing of the release of the report on Verve Energy, when he said — . . . I will be completely open and honest . . . When I have the information, it will be released. (1) When exactly did the government receive the electricity retail market review from the Office of Energy? (2) Will the minister repeat, for the record, the claim that government bureaucrats worked through the night on Thursday evening to produce the government’s modified figures for the increases in residential tariffs? (3) Can the minister explain why, on this decision, which involves expenditure of $1 billion and which will affect every family in Western Australia, and on his present version of the timing, he took only a few hours to come up with his response to the report? Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: (1)-(3) I will take the member back—the member should have dug this out before he asked the question—to the answer that I gave the member for Darling Range, and I will read it out verbatim for the member. The member for Darling Range asked me about receiving the report, and I said — I have not received the final report. I hope to receive the final report this week. When I receive the final report, I will take it to my colleagues the Premier and Treasurer, and we will discuss the time frame for releasing the report. Mr C.C. Porter : So when did you get it? Mr F.M. LOGAN : That is what we said. In answer to that question, I was referring to a newspaper article that stated I had received the draft report the previous Friday. I received the draft report the previous Friday, and I told the member that I expected to receive the final report. As the Premier has told this house—it was in the newspaper the previous week—when we received the final report, it did not have the consultants’ figures in it. It was all in the newspaper before the member for Darling Range even asked the question. Those final figures came out on Thursday, and the Premier took them to the people; that is, what was recommended and what the Premier and the Treasurer believed should be applied, being the 10 per cent from July 2009. It is as simple as that.
(2) Will the minister repeat, for the record, the claim that government bureaucrats worked through the night on Thursday evening to produce the government’s modified figures for the increases in residential tariffs? (3) Can the minister explain why, on this decision, which involves expenditure of $1 billion and which will affect every family in Western Australia, and on his present version of the timing, he took only a few hours to come up with his response to the report? Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: (1)-(3) I will take the member back—the member should have dug this out before he asked the question—to the answer that I gave the member for Darling Range, and I will read it out verbatim for the member. The member for Darling Range asked me about receiving the report, and I said — I have not received the final report. I hope to receive the final report this week. When I receive the final report, I will take it to my colleagues the Premier and Treasurer, and we will discuss the time frame for releasing the report. Mr C.C. Porter : So when did you get it? Mr F.M. LOGAN : That is what we said. In answer to that question, I was referring to a newspaper article that stated I had received the draft report the previous Friday. I received the draft report the previous Friday, and I told the member that I expected to receive the final report. As the Premier has told this house—it was in the newspaper the previous week—when we received the final report, it did not have the consultants’ figures in it. It was all in the newspaper before the member for Darling Range even asked the question. Those final figures came out on Thursday, and the Premier took them to the people; that is, what was recommended and what the Premier and the Treasurer believed should be applied, being the 10 per cent from July 2009. It is as simple as that.
(3) Can the minister explain why, on this decision, which involves expenditure of $1 billion and which will affect every family in Western Australia, and on his present version of the timing, he took only a few hours to come up with his response to the report? Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: (1)-(3) I will take the member back—the member should have dug this out before he asked the question—to the answer that I gave the member for Darling Range, and I will read it out verbatim for the member. The member for Darling Range asked me about receiving the report, and I said — I have not received the final report. I hope to receive the final report this week. When I receive the final report, I will take it to my colleagues the Premier and Treasurer, and we will discuss the time frame for releasing the report. Mr C.C. Porter : So when did you get it? Mr F.M. LOGAN : That is what we said. In answer to that question, I was referring to a newspaper article that stated I had received the draft report the previous Friday. I received the draft report the previous Friday, and I told the member that I expected to receive the final report. As the Premier has told this house—it was in the newspaper the previous week—when we received the final report, it did not have the consultants’ figures in it. It was all in the newspaper before the member for Darling Range even asked the question. Those final figures came out on Thursday, and the Premier took them to the people; that is, what was recommended and what the Premier and the Treasurer believed should be applied, being the 10 per cent from July 2009. It is as simple as that.
Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: (1)-(3) I will take the member back—the member should have dug this out before he asked the question—to the answer that I gave the member for Darling Range, and I will read it out verbatim for the member. The member for Darling Range asked me about receiving the report, and I said — I have not received the final report. I hope to receive the final report this week. When I receive the final report, I will take it to my colleagues the Premier and Treasurer, and we will discuss the time frame for releasing the report. Mr C.C. Porter : So when did you get it? Mr F.M. LOGAN : That is what we said. In answer to that question, I was referring to a newspaper article that stated I had received the draft report the previous Friday. I received the draft report the previous Friday, and I told the member that I expected to receive the final report. As the Premier has told this house—it was in the newspaper the previous week—when we received the final report, it did not have the consultants’ figures in it. It was all in the newspaper before the member for Darling Range even asked the question. Those final figures came out on Thursday, and the Premier took them to the people; that is, what was recommended and what the Premier and the Treasurer believed should be applied, being the 10 per cent from July 2009. It is as simple as that.
(1)-(3) I will take the member back—the member should have dug this out before he asked the question—to the answer that I gave the member for Darling Range, and I will read it out verbatim for the member. The member for Darling Range asked me about receiving the report, and I said — I have not received the final report. I hope to receive the final report this week. When I receive the final report, I will take it to my colleagues the Premier and Treasurer, and we will discuss the time frame for releasing the report. Mr C.C. Porter : So when did you get it? Mr F.M. LOGAN : That is what we said. In answer to that question, I was referring to a newspaper article that stated I had received the draft report the previous Friday. I received the draft report the previous Friday, and I told the member that I expected to receive the final report. As the Premier has told this house—it was in the newspaper the previous week—when we received the final report, it did not have the consultants’ figures in it. It was all in the newspaper before the member for Darling Range even asked the question. Those final figures came out on Thursday, and the Premier took them to the people; that is, what was recommended and what the Premier and the Treasurer believed should be applied, being the 10 per cent from July 2009. It is as simple as that.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : That is what we said. In answer to that question, I was referring to a newspaper article that stated I had received the draft report the previous Friday. I received the draft report the previous Friday, and I told the member that I expected to receive the final report. As the Premier has told this house—it was in the newspaper the previous week—when we received the final report, it did not have the consultants’ figures in it. It was all in the newspaper before the member for Darling Range even asked the question. Those final figures came out on Thursday, and the Premier took them to the people; that is, what was recommended and what the Premier and the Treasurer believed should be applied, being the 10 per cent from July 2009. It is as simple as that.
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