❓ Mr. Nalder questions the Premier's broken promise from the 2013 election regarding the implementation of a parliamentary budget office. The Premier deflects, criticising the opposition's lack of policies to cost.
AnsweredQoN 289Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
PARLIAMENTARY BUDGET
OFFICE
289. Mr D.C. NALDER to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question. Why
did the Premier say during the 2013 election that he would implement a parliamentary
budget office when in government, yet today he is unwilling to implement one in
the best interests of Western Australia?
Mr R.H. Cook interjected.
The SPEAKER : I call you to order for the first time,
Minister for Health.
OFFICE
289. Mr D.C. NALDER to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question. Why
did the Premier say during the 2013 election that he would implement a parliamentary
budget office when in government, yet today he is unwilling to implement one in
the best interests of Western Australia?
Mr R.H. Cook interjected.
The SPEAKER : I call you to order for the first time,
Minister for Health.
AnswerView source ↗
The member asked me about a commitment
I made at the election before last that we lost. I made commitments prior to
the 1996 election when I was first elected to Parliament. Why does the member
not hold me to those commitments as well? The member's questions are
bizarre. I have tried to ignore it, but they are strange. I do not know whether
he drafts them, but whoever drafts them, the member should look at getting a new
draftsperson. The reality is that over the course of the last three years and
one month when in opposition, the opposition has come up with just one policy.
Go and check the website. There is very little there in the way of policies—very
little. There are no policies for a parliamentary budget office to cost. The
opposition wants us to spend money on a parliamentary
budget office to cost policies that do not exist. Where are the opposition's
policies? When Labor was in opposition at this point in the electoral
cycle prior to the 2013 and 2017 elections, it had numerous policies out there.
We are implementing them and we will continue to implement them. All I will say
to the opposition is that maybe if it did some policy work, there would be
justification for a parliamentary budget office.
I made at the election before last that we lost. I made commitments prior to
the 1996 election when I was first elected to Parliament. Why does the member
not hold me to those commitments as well? The member's questions are
bizarre. I have tried to ignore it, but they are strange. I do not know whether
he drafts them, but whoever drafts them, the member should look at getting a new
draftsperson. The reality is that over the course of the last three years and
one month when in opposition, the opposition has come up with just one policy.
Go and check the website. There is very little there in the way of policies—very
little. There are no policies for a parliamentary budget office to cost. The
opposition wants us to spend money on a parliamentary
budget office to cost policies that do not exist. Where are the opposition's
policies? When Labor was in opposition at this point in the electoral
cycle prior to the 2013 and 2017 elections, it had numerous policies out there.
We are implementing them and we will continue to implement them. All I will say
to the opposition is that maybe if it did some policy work, there would be
justification for a parliamentary budget office.
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