❓ Mr. Buswell questions the Treasurer on controlling public sector wage growth. Mr. Ripper defends the government's spending, citing increased service demands and correcting employment figures to full-time equivalents.
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PUBLIC SECTOR WAGES
I have a supplementary question. What is the Treasurer going to do, therefore, to rein in the growth of the public sector wages bill? Mr E.S. RIPPER
I have a supplementary question. What is the Treasurer going to do, therefore, to rein in the growth of the public sector wages bill? Mr E.S. RIPPER
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The public sector wages bill consists of both wage increases, and additional wages for people who have been employed to provide services. Mr T.R. Buswell interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER: The member has a problem with his integrity when he continues to refer to that figure of 18 000, and he knows that there has been a 46 per cent increase in part-time employment. The correct figure is that for full-time equivalents, which is 10 500. That is also a big figure, but it consists of teachers, police officers, nurses, teachers’ aides, child protection workers, environmental approvals people and disability services workers. All those people offer improved services to the people of Western Australia. This government takes seriously the control of expenditure growth; that is partly what the functional reviews are about. However, in making its decisions it bears in mind that this state has been through an extraordinary period in terms of additional revenue and a need to overcome inherited deficiencies, and we will not continually go through periods like that.
Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: The public sector wages bill consists of both wage increases, and additional wages for people who have been employed to provide services. Mr T.R. Buswell interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER: The member has a problem with his integrity when he continues to refer to that figure of 18 000, and he knows that there has been a 46 per cent increase in part-time employment. The correct figure is that for full-time equivalents, which is 10 500. That is also a big figure, but it consists of teachers, police officers, nurses, teachers’ aides, child protection workers, environmental approvals people and disability services workers. All those people offer improved services to the people of Western Australia. This government takes seriously the control of expenditure growth; that is partly what the functional reviews are about. However, in making its decisions it bears in mind that this state has been through an extraordinary period in terms of additional revenue and a need to overcome inherited deficiencies, and we will not continually go through periods like that.
The public sector wages bill consists of both wage increases, and additional wages for people who have been employed to provide services. Mr T.R. Buswell interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER: The member has a problem with his integrity when he continues to refer to that figure of 18 000, and he knows that there has been a 46 per cent increase in part-time employment. The correct figure is that for full-time equivalents, which is 10 500. That is also a big figure, but it consists of teachers, police officers, nurses, teachers’ aides, child protection workers, environmental approvals people and disability services workers. All those people offer improved services to the people of Western Australia. This government takes seriously the control of expenditure growth; that is partly what the functional reviews are about. However, in making its decisions it bears in mind that this state has been through an extraordinary period in terms of additional revenue and a need to overcome inherited deficiencies, and we will not continually go through periods like that.
Mr T.R. Buswell interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER: The member has a problem with his integrity when he continues to refer to that figure of 18 000, and he knows that there has been a 46 per cent increase in part-time employment. The correct figure is that for full-time equivalents, which is 10 500. That is also a big figure, but it consists of teachers, police officers, nurses, teachers’ aides, child protection workers, environmental approvals people and disability services workers. All those people offer improved services to the people of Western Australia. This government takes seriously the control of expenditure growth; that is partly what the functional reviews are about. However, in making its decisions it bears in mind that this state has been through an extraordinary period in terms of additional revenue and a need to overcome inherited deficiencies, and we will not continually go through periods like that.
Mr E.S. RIPPER: The member has a problem with his integrity when he continues to refer to that figure of 18 000, and he knows that there has been a 46 per cent increase in part-time employment. The correct figure is that for full-time equivalents, which is 10 500. That is also a big figure, but it consists of teachers, police officers, nurses, teachers’ aides, child protection workers, environmental approvals people and disability services workers. All those people offer improved services to the people of Western Australia. This government takes seriously the control of expenditure growth; that is partly what the functional reviews are about. However, in making its decisions it bears in mind that this state has been through an extraordinary period in terms of additional revenue and a need to overcome inherited deficiencies, and we will not continually go through periods like that.
Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: The public sector wages bill consists of both wage increases, and additional wages for people who have been employed to provide services. Mr T.R. Buswell interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER: The member has a problem with his integrity when he continues to refer to that figure of 18 000, and he knows that there has been a 46 per cent increase in part-time employment. The correct figure is that for full-time equivalents, which is 10 500. That is also a big figure, but it consists of teachers, police officers, nurses, teachers’ aides, child protection workers, environmental approvals people and disability services workers. All those people offer improved services to the people of Western Australia. This government takes seriously the control of expenditure growth; that is partly what the functional reviews are about. However, in making its decisions it bears in mind that this state has been through an extraordinary period in terms of additional revenue and a need to overcome inherited deficiencies, and we will not continually go through periods like that.
The public sector wages bill consists of both wage increases, and additional wages for people who have been employed to provide services. Mr T.R. Buswell interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER: The member has a problem with his integrity when he continues to refer to that figure of 18 000, and he knows that there has been a 46 per cent increase in part-time employment. The correct figure is that for full-time equivalents, which is 10 500. That is also a big figure, but it consists of teachers, police officers, nurses, teachers’ aides, child protection workers, environmental approvals people and disability services workers. All those people offer improved services to the people of Western Australia. This government takes seriously the control of expenditure growth; that is partly what the functional reviews are about. However, in making its decisions it bears in mind that this state has been through an extraordinary period in terms of additional revenue and a need to overcome inherited deficiencies, and we will not continually go through periods like that.
Mr T.R. Buswell interjected. Mr E.S. RIPPER: The member has a problem with his integrity when he continues to refer to that figure of 18 000, and he knows that there has been a 46 per cent increase in part-time employment. The correct figure is that for full-time equivalents, which is 10 500. That is also a big figure, but it consists of teachers, police officers, nurses, teachers’ aides, child protection workers, environmental approvals people and disability services workers. All those people offer improved services to the people of Western Australia. This government takes seriously the control of expenditure growth; that is partly what the functional reviews are about. However, in making its decisions it bears in mind that this state has been through an extraordinary period in terms of additional revenue and a need to overcome inherited deficiencies, and we will not continually go through periods like that.
Mr E.S. RIPPER: The member has a problem with his integrity when he continues to refer to that figure of 18 000, and he knows that there has been a 46 per cent increase in part-time employment. The correct figure is that for full-time equivalents, which is 10 500. That is also a big figure, but it consists of teachers, police officers, nurses, teachers’ aides, child protection workers, environmental approvals people and disability services workers. All those people offer improved services to the people of Western Australia. This government takes seriously the control of expenditure growth; that is partly what the functional reviews are about. However, in making its decisions it bears in mind that this state has been through an extraordinary period in terms of additional revenue and a need to overcome inherited deficiencies, and we will not continually go through periods like that.
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