❓ Hon. Norman Moore questions the deferral of regional investment funds, seeking assurance of future availability. Hon. Tom Stephens responds, outlining budgetary processes and project dependencies, while defending the government's financial strategy.
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I refer to the decision to defer expenditure of $9.5 million of the budgeted $25 million in the regional investment fund budget for 2001-02 and ask - (1) Will the minister give an absolute assurance that the $9.5 million will be available in 2002-03 in addition to the funds already budgeted for 2002-03? (2) Is the delay in determining the details of when funding will be provided for committed projects totalling $30.5 million simply a device to further reduce expenditure in this financial year? (3) Does the minister support the Treasurer’s financial strategy of deferring expenditure in regional Western Australia in order to overcome its self-imposed budgetary problems? Hon TOM STEPHENS
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I thank the honourable member for a copy of the question. (1) The process by which the flow of moneys will proceed through this fund will be determined through the budgetary processes. I hope that as much of that $9.5 million as possible will be available in 2002-03. However, some projects may not be ready for full use of that expenditure in that time frame. For instance, I am vigorously working to get the Shark Bay interpretive centre up and racing. It is a $5 million project for which some funds may not even be spent within the next financial year. I had hoped it would be otherwise but it is in the hands of commonwealth government funding, and there will also be other projects like that. It is not the intention of the Government to defer the $9.5 million beyond the next financial year, but each item of funding will be dependent upon individual consideration through the Expenditure Review Committee process and will be handled by each of the development commissions and proponents for the various projects. The member can be absolutely confident that by the end of the four-year cycle of what I hope will be a couple of decades of Labor in office, that all of this fund will have been spent on regional Western Australia. Hon Norman Moore: All of it meaning how much? Hon TOM STEPHENS: Meaning $75 million and, fingers crossed - Hon Norman Moore interjected. The PRESIDENT: Order member! We are not into supplementary questions yet. Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
(1) Will the minister give an absolute assurance that the $9.5 million will be available in 2002-03 in addition to the funds already budgeted for 2002-03? (2) Is the delay in determining the details of when funding will be provided for committed projects totalling $30.5 million simply a device to further reduce expenditure in this financial year? (3) Does the minister support the Treasurer’s financial strategy of deferring expenditure in regional Western Australia in order to overcome its self-imposed budgetary problems? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the honourable member for a copy of the question. (1) The process by which the flow of moneys will proceed through this fund will be determined through the budgetary processes. I hope that as much of that $9.5 million as possible will be available in 2002-03. However, some projects may not be ready for full use of that expenditure in that time frame. For instance, I am vigorously working to get the Shark Bay interpretive centre up and racing. It is a $5 million project for which some funds may not even be spent within the next financial year. I had hoped it would be otherwise but it is in the hands of commonwealth government funding, and there will also be other projects like that. It is not the intention of the Government to defer the $9.5 million beyond the next financial year, but each item of funding will be dependent upon individual consideration through the Expenditure Review Committee process and will be handled by each of the development commissions and proponents for the various projects. The member can be absolutely confident that by the end of the four-year cycle of what I hope will be a couple of decades of Labor in office, that all of this fund will have been spent on regional Western Australia. Hon Norman Moore: All of it meaning how much? Hon TOM STEPHENS: Meaning $75 million and, fingers crossed - Hon Norman Moore interjected. The PRESIDENT: Order member! We are not into supplementary questions yet. Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
(2) Is the delay in determining the details of when funding will be provided for committed projects totalling $30.5 million simply a device to further reduce expenditure in this financial year? (3) Does the minister support the Treasurer’s financial strategy of deferring expenditure in regional Western Australia in order to overcome its self-imposed budgetary problems? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the honourable member for a copy of the question. (1) The process by which the flow of moneys will proceed through this fund will be determined through the budgetary processes. I hope that as much of that $9.5 million as possible will be available in 2002-03. However, some projects may not be ready for full use of that expenditure in that time frame. For instance, I am vigorously working to get the Shark Bay interpretive centre up and racing. It is a $5 million project for which some funds may not even be spent within the next financial year. I had hoped it would be otherwise but it is in the hands of commonwealth government funding, and there will also be other projects like that. It is not the intention of the Government to defer the $9.5 million beyond the next financial year, but each item of funding will be dependent upon individual consideration through the Expenditure Review Committee process and will be handled by each of the development commissions and proponents for the various projects. The member can be absolutely confident that by the end of the four-year cycle of what I hope will be a couple of decades of Labor in office, that all of this fund will have been spent on regional Western Australia. Hon Norman Moore: All of it meaning how much? Hon TOM STEPHENS: Meaning $75 million and, fingers crossed - Hon Norman Moore interjected. The PRESIDENT: Order member! We are not into supplementary questions yet. Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
(3) Does the minister support the Treasurer’s financial strategy of deferring expenditure in regional Western Australia in order to overcome its self-imposed budgetary problems? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the honourable member for a copy of the question. (1) The process by which the flow of moneys will proceed through this fund will be determined through the budgetary processes. I hope that as much of that $9.5 million as possible will be available in 2002-03. However, some projects may not be ready for full use of that expenditure in that time frame. For instance, I am vigorously working to get the Shark Bay interpretive centre up and racing. It is a $5 million project for which some funds may not even be spent within the next financial year. I had hoped it would be otherwise but it is in the hands of commonwealth government funding, and there will also be other projects like that. It is not the intention of the Government to defer the $9.5 million beyond the next financial year, but each item of funding will be dependent upon individual consideration through the Expenditure Review Committee process and will be handled by each of the development commissions and proponents for the various projects. The member can be absolutely confident that by the end of the four-year cycle of what I hope will be a couple of decades of Labor in office, that all of this fund will have been spent on regional Western Australia. Hon Norman Moore: All of it meaning how much? Hon TOM STEPHENS: Meaning $75 million and, fingers crossed - Hon Norman Moore interjected. The PRESIDENT: Order member! We are not into supplementary questions yet. Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the honourable member for a copy of the question. (1) The process by which the flow of moneys will proceed through this fund will be determined through the budgetary processes. I hope that as much of that $9.5 million as possible will be available in 2002-03. However, some projects may not be ready for full use of that expenditure in that time frame. For instance, I am vigorously working to get the Shark Bay interpretive centre up and racing. It is a $5 million project for which some funds may not even be spent within the next financial year. I had hoped it would be otherwise but it is in the hands of commonwealth government funding, and there will also be other projects like that. It is not the intention of the Government to defer the $9.5 million beyond the next financial year, but each item of funding will be dependent upon individual consideration through the Expenditure Review Committee process and will be handled by each of the development commissions and proponents for the various projects. The member can be absolutely confident that by the end of the four-year cycle of what I hope will be a couple of decades of Labor in office, that all of this fund will have been spent on regional Western Australia. Hon Norman Moore: All of it meaning how much? Hon TOM STEPHENS: Meaning $75 million and, fingers crossed - Hon Norman Moore interjected. The PRESIDENT: Order member! We are not into supplementary questions yet. Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
I thank the honourable member for a copy of the question. (1) The process by which the flow of moneys will proceed through this fund will be determined through the budgetary processes. I hope that as much of that $9.5 million as possible will be available in 2002-03. However, some projects may not be ready for full use of that expenditure in that time frame. For instance, I am vigorously working to get the Shark Bay interpretive centre up and racing. It is a $5 million project for which some funds may not even be spent within the next financial year. I had hoped it would be otherwise but it is in the hands of commonwealth government funding, and there will also be other projects like that. It is not the intention of the Government to defer the $9.5 million beyond the next financial year, but each item of funding will be dependent upon individual consideration through the Expenditure Review Committee process and will be handled by each of the development commissions and proponents for the various projects. The member can be absolutely confident that by the end of the four-year cycle of what I hope will be a couple of decades of Labor in office, that all of this fund will have been spent on regional Western Australia. Hon Norman Moore: All of it meaning how much? Hon TOM STEPHENS: Meaning $75 million and, fingers crossed - Hon Norman Moore interjected. The PRESIDENT: Order member! We are not into supplementary questions yet. Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
(1) The process by which the flow of moneys will proceed through this fund will be determined through the budgetary processes. I hope that as much of that $9.5 million as possible will be available in 2002-03. However, some projects may not be ready for full use of that expenditure in that time frame. For instance, I am vigorously working to get the Shark Bay interpretive centre up and racing. It is a $5 million project for which some funds may not even be spent within the next financial year. I had hoped it would be otherwise but it is in the hands of commonwealth government funding, and there will also be other projects like that. It is not the intention of the Government to defer the $9.5 million beyond the next financial year, but each item of funding will be dependent upon individual consideration through the Expenditure Review Committee process and will be handled by each of the development commissions and proponents for the various projects. The member can be absolutely confident that by the end of the four-year cycle of what I hope will be a couple of decades of Labor in office, that all of this fund will have been spent on regional Western Australia. Hon Norman Moore: All of it meaning how much? Hon TOM STEPHENS: Meaning $75 million and, fingers crossed - Hon Norman Moore interjected. The PRESIDENT: Order member! We are not into supplementary questions yet. Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
Hon Norman Moore: All of it meaning how much? Hon TOM STEPHENS: Meaning $75 million and, fingers crossed - Hon Norman Moore interjected. The PRESIDENT: Order member! We are not into supplementary questions yet. Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
Hon TOM STEPHENS: Meaning $75 million and, fingers crossed - Hon Norman Moore interjected. The PRESIDENT: Order member! We are not into supplementary questions yet. Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
Hon Norman Moore interjected. The PRESIDENT: Order member! We are not into supplementary questions yet. Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
The PRESIDENT: Order member! We are not into supplementary questions yet. Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
(2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
(3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
(1) Will the minister give an absolute assurance that the $9.5 million will be available in 2002-03 in addition to the funds already budgeted for 2002-03? (2) Is the delay in determining the details of when funding will be provided for committed projects totalling $30.5 million simply a device to further reduce expenditure in this financial year? (3) Does the minister support the Treasurer’s financial strategy of deferring expenditure in regional Western Australia in order to overcome its self-imposed budgetary problems? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the honourable member for a copy of the question. (1) The process by which the flow of moneys will proceed through this fund will be determined through the budgetary processes. I hope that as much of that $9.5 million as possible will be available in 2002-03. However, some projects may not be ready for full use of that expenditure in that time frame. For instance, I am vigorously working to get the Shark Bay interpretive centre up and racing. It is a $5 million project for which some funds may not even be spent within the next financial year. I had hoped it would be otherwise but it is in the hands of commonwealth government funding, and there will also be other projects like that. It is not the intention of the Government to defer the $9.5 million beyond the next financial year, but each item of funding will be dependent upon individual consideration through the Expenditure Review Committee process and will be handled by each of the development commissions and proponents for the various projects. The member can be absolutely confident that by the end of the four-year cycle of what I hope will be a couple of decades of Labor in office, that all of this fund will have been spent on regional Western Australia. Hon Norman Moore: All of it meaning how much? Hon TOM STEPHENS: Meaning $75 million and, fingers crossed - Hon Norman Moore interjected. The PRESIDENT: Order member! We are not into supplementary questions yet. Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
(2) Is the delay in determining the details of when funding will be provided for committed projects totalling $30.5 million simply a device to further reduce expenditure in this financial year? (3) Does the minister support the Treasurer’s financial strategy of deferring expenditure in regional Western Australia in order to overcome its self-imposed budgetary problems? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the honourable member for a copy of the question. (1) The process by which the flow of moneys will proceed through this fund will be determined through the budgetary processes. I hope that as much of that $9.5 million as possible will be available in 2002-03. However, some projects may not be ready for full use of that expenditure in that time frame. For instance, I am vigorously working to get the Shark Bay interpretive centre up and racing. It is a $5 million project for which some funds may not even be spent within the next financial year. I had hoped it would be otherwise but it is in the hands of commonwealth government funding, and there will also be other projects like that. It is not the intention of the Government to defer the $9.5 million beyond the next financial year, but each item of funding will be dependent upon individual consideration through the Expenditure Review Committee process and will be handled by each of the development commissions and proponents for the various projects. The member can be absolutely confident that by the end of the four-year cycle of what I hope will be a couple of decades of Labor in office, that all of this fund will have been spent on regional Western Australia. Hon Norman Moore: All of it meaning how much? Hon TOM STEPHENS: Meaning $75 million and, fingers crossed - Hon Norman Moore interjected. The PRESIDENT: Order member! We are not into supplementary questions yet. Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
(3) Does the minister support the Treasurer’s financial strategy of deferring expenditure in regional Western Australia in order to overcome its self-imposed budgetary problems? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the honourable member for a copy of the question. (1) The process by which the flow of moneys will proceed through this fund will be determined through the budgetary processes. I hope that as much of that $9.5 million as possible will be available in 2002-03. However, some projects may not be ready for full use of that expenditure in that time frame. For instance, I am vigorously working to get the Shark Bay interpretive centre up and racing. It is a $5 million project for which some funds may not even be spent within the next financial year. I had hoped it would be otherwise but it is in the hands of commonwealth government funding, and there will also be other projects like that. It is not the intention of the Government to defer the $9.5 million beyond the next financial year, but each item of funding will be dependent upon individual consideration through the Expenditure Review Committee process and will be handled by each of the development commissions and proponents for the various projects. The member can be absolutely confident that by the end of the four-year cycle of what I hope will be a couple of decades of Labor in office, that all of this fund will have been spent on regional Western Australia. Hon Norman Moore: All of it meaning how much? Hon TOM STEPHENS: Meaning $75 million and, fingers crossed - Hon Norman Moore interjected. The PRESIDENT: Order member! We are not into supplementary questions yet. Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the honourable member for a copy of the question. (1) The process by which the flow of moneys will proceed through this fund will be determined through the budgetary processes. I hope that as much of that $9.5 million as possible will be available in 2002-03. However, some projects may not be ready for full use of that expenditure in that time frame. For instance, I am vigorously working to get the Shark Bay interpretive centre up and racing. It is a $5 million project for which some funds may not even be spent within the next financial year. I had hoped it would be otherwise but it is in the hands of commonwealth government funding, and there will also be other projects like that. It is not the intention of the Government to defer the $9.5 million beyond the next financial year, but each item of funding will be dependent upon individual consideration through the Expenditure Review Committee process and will be handled by each of the development commissions and proponents for the various projects. The member can be absolutely confident that by the end of the four-year cycle of what I hope will be a couple of decades of Labor in office, that all of this fund will have been spent on regional Western Australia. Hon Norman Moore: All of it meaning how much? Hon TOM STEPHENS: Meaning $75 million and, fingers crossed - Hon Norman Moore interjected. The PRESIDENT: Order member! We are not into supplementary questions yet. Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
I thank the honourable member for a copy of the question. (1) The process by which the flow of moneys will proceed through this fund will be determined through the budgetary processes. I hope that as much of that $9.5 million as possible will be available in 2002-03. However, some projects may not be ready for full use of that expenditure in that time frame. For instance, I am vigorously working to get the Shark Bay interpretive centre up and racing. It is a $5 million project for which some funds may not even be spent within the next financial year. I had hoped it would be otherwise but it is in the hands of commonwealth government funding, and there will also be other projects like that. It is not the intention of the Government to defer the $9.5 million beyond the next financial year, but each item of funding will be dependent upon individual consideration through the Expenditure Review Committee process and will be handled by each of the development commissions and proponents for the various projects. The member can be absolutely confident that by the end of the four-year cycle of what I hope will be a couple of decades of Labor in office, that all of this fund will have been spent on regional Western Australia. Hon Norman Moore: All of it meaning how much? Hon TOM STEPHENS: Meaning $75 million and, fingers crossed - Hon Norman Moore interjected. The PRESIDENT: Order member! We are not into supplementary questions yet. Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
(1) The process by which the flow of moneys will proceed through this fund will be determined through the budgetary processes. I hope that as much of that $9.5 million as possible will be available in 2002-03. However, some projects may not be ready for full use of that expenditure in that time frame. For instance, I am vigorously working to get the Shark Bay interpretive centre up and racing. It is a $5 million project for which some funds may not even be spent within the next financial year. I had hoped it would be otherwise but it is in the hands of commonwealth government funding, and there will also be other projects like that. It is not the intention of the Government to defer the $9.5 million beyond the next financial year, but each item of funding will be dependent upon individual consideration through the Expenditure Review Committee process and will be handled by each of the development commissions and proponents for the various projects. The member can be absolutely confident that by the end of the four-year cycle of what I hope will be a couple of decades of Labor in office, that all of this fund will have been spent on regional Western Australia. Hon Norman Moore: All of it meaning how much? Hon TOM STEPHENS: Meaning $75 million and, fingers crossed - Hon Norman Moore interjected. The PRESIDENT: Order member! We are not into supplementary questions yet. Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
Hon Norman Moore: All of it meaning how much? Hon TOM STEPHENS: Meaning $75 million and, fingers crossed - Hon Norman Moore interjected. The PRESIDENT: Order member! We are not into supplementary questions yet. Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
Hon TOM STEPHENS: Meaning $75 million and, fingers crossed - Hon Norman Moore interjected. The PRESIDENT: Order member! We are not into supplementary questions yet. Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
Hon Norman Moore interjected. The PRESIDENT: Order member! We are not into supplementary questions yet. Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
The PRESIDENT: Order member! We are not into supplementary questions yet. Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
Hon TOM STEPHENS: (2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
(2) No. (3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
(3) I support the strategy of the Treasurer and this Government in getting this State’s budgets in order so that the budgets that were out of control under the previous Government’s administration are reined in. This will allow recurrent expenditure to be managed within the revenue streams available to the State of Western Australia. That is one of a variety of ways that include a focused and determined effort on the part of the Government across all departments and agencies. It is hard work but work that we will not do by flogging off the assets of Western Australia, like the previous Government did when it was in office.
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