❓ Ms. Quirk asks the Minister for Road Safety if he will support a bill to direct all speed and red-light camera revenue to the Road Trauma Trust Fund. The Minister declines, citing deficiencies in previous bills and the importance of allocating revenue to other areas like hospitals.
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ROAD SAFETY — SPEED AND RED-LIGHT CAMERA REVENUE
I have a supplementary question. This requires a yes or no answer, minister. Will the minister support a private member’s bill to amend the Road Safety Council Act 2002 so that all revenue from speed and red-light cameras goes directly to the Road Trauma Trust Fund? Yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON
I have a supplementary question. This requires a yes or no answer, minister. Will the minister support a private member’s bill to amend the Road Safety Council Act 2002 so that all revenue from speed and red-light cameras goes directly to the Road Trauma Trust Fund? Yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON
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The answer to whether I would support the member’s private member’s bill—if it is anything like the other bills she has brought in—would be no! That is because they are always deficient in their legislative programs. I have already explained this, and I will come back to this one day because I have some press releases from the member for Girrawheen and her colleague the member for Midland promising that all the money would go in the Road Trauma Trust Fund and they never ever came through with it. Why? It is because the member for Girrawheen knows as well as I do that two-thirds of that does importantly go to other areas in government like hospitals, care facilities and all those sort of areas, which are a very important factor of the consequences of dangerous and reckless driving on our roads. The government is committed to reducing that trauma. We are going to be very fortunate in one way that having these new digitalised cameras and the increased number of cameras it will increase the funds that will be available in the Road Trauma Trust Fund. Ms M.M. Quirk : Yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have already said no, I will not support the member’s private member’s bill.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: The answer to whether I would support the member’s private member’s bill—if it is anything like the other bills she has brought in—would be no! That is because they are always deficient in their legislative programs. I have already explained this, and I will come back to this one day because I have some press releases from the member for Girrawheen and her colleague the member for Midland promising that all the money would go in the Road Trauma Trust Fund and they never ever came through with it. Why? It is because the member for Girrawheen knows as well as I do that two-thirds of that does importantly go to other areas in government like hospitals, care facilities and all those sort of areas, which are a very important factor of the consequences of dangerous and reckless driving on our roads. The government is committed to reducing that trauma. We are going to be very fortunate in one way that having these new digitalised cameras and the increased number of cameras it will increase the funds that will be available in the Road Trauma Trust Fund. Ms M.M. Quirk : Yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have already said no, I will not support the member’s private member’s bill.
The answer to whether I would support the member’s private member’s bill—if it is anything like the other bills she has brought in—would be no! That is because they are always deficient in their legislative programs. I have already explained this, and I will come back to this one day because I have some press releases from the member for Girrawheen and her colleague the member for Midland promising that all the money would go in the Road Trauma Trust Fund and they never ever came through with it. Why? It is because the member for Girrawheen knows as well as I do that two-thirds of that does importantly go to other areas in government like hospitals, care facilities and all those sort of areas, which are a very important factor of the consequences of dangerous and reckless driving on our roads. The government is committed to reducing that trauma. We are going to be very fortunate in one way that having these new digitalised cameras and the increased number of cameras it will increase the funds that will be available in the Road Trauma Trust Fund. Ms M.M. Quirk : Yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have already said no, I will not support the member’s private member’s bill.
Ms M.M. Quirk : Yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have already said no, I will not support the member’s private member’s bill.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have already said no, I will not support the member’s private member’s bill.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: The answer to whether I would support the member’s private member’s bill—if it is anything like the other bills she has brought in—would be no! That is because they are always deficient in their legislative programs. I have already explained this, and I will come back to this one day because I have some press releases from the member for Girrawheen and her colleague the member for Midland promising that all the money would go in the Road Trauma Trust Fund and they never ever came through with it. Why? It is because the member for Girrawheen knows as well as I do that two-thirds of that does importantly go to other areas in government like hospitals, care facilities and all those sort of areas, which are a very important factor of the consequences of dangerous and reckless driving on our roads. The government is committed to reducing that trauma. We are going to be very fortunate in one way that having these new digitalised cameras and the increased number of cameras it will increase the funds that will be available in the Road Trauma Trust Fund. Ms M.M. Quirk : Yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have already said no, I will not support the member’s private member’s bill.
The answer to whether I would support the member’s private member’s bill—if it is anything like the other bills she has brought in—would be no! That is because they are always deficient in their legislative programs. I have already explained this, and I will come back to this one day because I have some press releases from the member for Girrawheen and her colleague the member for Midland promising that all the money would go in the Road Trauma Trust Fund and they never ever came through with it. Why? It is because the member for Girrawheen knows as well as I do that two-thirds of that does importantly go to other areas in government like hospitals, care facilities and all those sort of areas, which are a very important factor of the consequences of dangerous and reckless driving on our roads. The government is committed to reducing that trauma. We are going to be very fortunate in one way that having these new digitalised cameras and the increased number of cameras it will increase the funds that will be available in the Road Trauma Trust Fund. Ms M.M. Quirk : Yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have already said no, I will not support the member’s private member’s bill.
Ms M.M. Quirk : Yes or no? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have already said no, I will not support the member’s private member’s bill.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have already said no, I will not support the member’s private member’s bill.
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