❓ A parliamentary question on notice regarding road funding cuts, specifically concerning the Toodyay bypass and the Lancelin-Cervantes coastal highway. The Minister disputes the figures and defends the government's overall road funding strategy.
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Given that the state budget revealed that the Main Roads capital works program has been slashed by $75 million to $301 million for the budget period 2005-06 and that just $108 million of those funds will be targeted to regional road projects - (1) Why did the minister not provide any funding for the Toodyay bypass, which would prevent 6 000 heavy vehicles a year having to pass through that historic town’s main street? (2) When will the minister commit funds to the Toodyay project, considering she took the funds away? (3) Why has the minister now pushed the commencement date of the Lancelin-Cervantes coastal highway out to 2007-08, thereby forcing tourist and light traffic to mix it with heavy vehicles on the Brand Highway? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
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I thank the member for the notice of the question. (1)-(3) I seek some clarification. We have been going through the budget papers, and we are puzzled by some of the figures that the member has used. From where did he get the figure of $108 million? Mr M.W. Trenorden : By adding up the figures in the budget papers. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I suggest we get the gentleman an abacus. In fact, Main Roads’ estimation is that the amount that will be spent on capital works in regional areas in this coming year will be in excess of $170 million. Mr M.W. Trenorden : How much of that is commonwealth money? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is state government funding. The National Party has made a range of bizarre allegations about road funding. In particular it has attacked us for putting only $20 million a year into black spots funding. Members will recall that in the last year of the Court government, it made a great fanfare about how it was putting $13 million into black spots funding. We pledged in 2001 that we would increase black spots funding for four years to $15 million a year. We have done that. In the last election, we added another $5 million. That means we have now increased black spots funding to $20 million a year. That has been received with great enthusiasm by all the stakeholders, including the Royal Automobile Club of WA. Unfortunately, National Party members seem to suffer from amnesia, because they have forgotten that they were part of the Court coalition government. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the substantial improvement that we have made in black spots funding from $13 million to $20 million. That is a huge leap in the amount of funding. That will continue over the next four years. The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
(1) Why did the minister not provide any funding for the Toodyay bypass, which would prevent 6 000 heavy vehicles a year having to pass through that historic town’s main street? (2) When will the minister commit funds to the Toodyay project, considering she took the funds away? (3) Why has the minister now pushed the commencement date of the Lancelin-Cervantes coastal highway out to 2007-08, thereby forcing tourist and light traffic to mix it with heavy vehicles on the Brand Highway? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the notice of the question. (1)-(3) I seek some clarification. We have been going through the budget papers, and we are puzzled by some of the figures that the member has used. From where did he get the figure of $108 million? Mr M.W. Trenorden : By adding up the figures in the budget papers. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I suggest we get the gentleman an abacus. In fact, Main Roads’ estimation is that the amount that will be spent on capital works in regional areas in this coming year will be in excess of $170 million. Mr M.W. Trenorden : How much of that is commonwealth money? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is state government funding. The National Party has made a range of bizarre allegations about road funding. In particular it has attacked us for putting only $20 million a year into black spots funding. Members will recall that in the last year of the Court government, it made a great fanfare about how it was putting $13 million into black spots funding. We pledged in 2001 that we would increase black spots funding for four years to $15 million a year. We have done that. In the last election, we added another $5 million. That means we have now increased black spots funding to $20 million a year. That has been received with great enthusiasm by all the stakeholders, including the Royal Automobile Club of WA. Unfortunately, National Party members seem to suffer from amnesia, because they have forgotten that they were part of the Court coalition government. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the substantial improvement that we have made in black spots funding from $13 million to $20 million. That is a huge leap in the amount of funding. That will continue over the next four years. The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
(2) When will the minister commit funds to the Toodyay project, considering she took the funds away? (3) Why has the minister now pushed the commencement date of the Lancelin-Cervantes coastal highway out to 2007-08, thereby forcing tourist and light traffic to mix it with heavy vehicles on the Brand Highway? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the notice of the question. (1)-(3) I seek some clarification. We have been going through the budget papers, and we are puzzled by some of the figures that the member has used. From where did he get the figure of $108 million? Mr M.W. Trenorden : By adding up the figures in the budget papers. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I suggest we get the gentleman an abacus. In fact, Main Roads’ estimation is that the amount that will be spent on capital works in regional areas in this coming year will be in excess of $170 million. Mr M.W. Trenorden : How much of that is commonwealth money? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is state government funding. The National Party has made a range of bizarre allegations about road funding. In particular it has attacked us for putting only $20 million a year into black spots funding. Members will recall that in the last year of the Court government, it made a great fanfare about how it was putting $13 million into black spots funding. We pledged in 2001 that we would increase black spots funding for four years to $15 million a year. We have done that. In the last election, we added another $5 million. That means we have now increased black spots funding to $20 million a year. That has been received with great enthusiasm by all the stakeholders, including the Royal Automobile Club of WA. Unfortunately, National Party members seem to suffer from amnesia, because they have forgotten that they were part of the Court coalition government. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the substantial improvement that we have made in black spots funding from $13 million to $20 million. That is a huge leap in the amount of funding. That will continue over the next four years. The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
(3) Why has the minister now pushed the commencement date of the Lancelin-Cervantes coastal highway out to 2007-08, thereby forcing tourist and light traffic to mix it with heavy vehicles on the Brand Highway? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the notice of the question. (1)-(3) I seek some clarification. We have been going through the budget papers, and we are puzzled by some of the figures that the member has used. From where did he get the figure of $108 million? Mr M.W. Trenorden : By adding up the figures in the budget papers. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I suggest we get the gentleman an abacus. In fact, Main Roads’ estimation is that the amount that will be spent on capital works in regional areas in this coming year will be in excess of $170 million. Mr M.W. Trenorden : How much of that is commonwealth money? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is state government funding. The National Party has made a range of bizarre allegations about road funding. In particular it has attacked us for putting only $20 million a year into black spots funding. Members will recall that in the last year of the Court government, it made a great fanfare about how it was putting $13 million into black spots funding. We pledged in 2001 that we would increase black spots funding for four years to $15 million a year. We have done that. In the last election, we added another $5 million. That means we have now increased black spots funding to $20 million a year. That has been received with great enthusiasm by all the stakeholders, including the Royal Automobile Club of WA. Unfortunately, National Party members seem to suffer from amnesia, because they have forgotten that they were part of the Court coalition government. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the substantial improvement that we have made in black spots funding from $13 million to $20 million. That is a huge leap in the amount of funding. That will continue over the next four years. The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the notice of the question. (1)-(3) I seek some clarification. We have been going through the budget papers, and we are puzzled by some of the figures that the member has used. From where did he get the figure of $108 million? Mr M.W. Trenorden : By adding up the figures in the budget papers. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I suggest we get the gentleman an abacus. In fact, Main Roads’ estimation is that the amount that will be spent on capital works in regional areas in this coming year will be in excess of $170 million. Mr M.W. Trenorden : How much of that is commonwealth money? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is state government funding. The National Party has made a range of bizarre allegations about road funding. In particular it has attacked us for putting only $20 million a year into black spots funding. Members will recall that in the last year of the Court government, it made a great fanfare about how it was putting $13 million into black spots funding. We pledged in 2001 that we would increase black spots funding for four years to $15 million a year. We have done that. In the last election, we added another $5 million. That means we have now increased black spots funding to $20 million a year. That has been received with great enthusiasm by all the stakeholders, including the Royal Automobile Club of WA. Unfortunately, National Party members seem to suffer from amnesia, because they have forgotten that they were part of the Court coalition government. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the substantial improvement that we have made in black spots funding from $13 million to $20 million. That is a huge leap in the amount of funding. That will continue over the next four years. The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
I thank the member for the notice of the question. (1)-(3) I seek some clarification. We have been going through the budget papers, and we are puzzled by some of the figures that the member has used. From where did he get the figure of $108 million? Mr M.W. Trenorden : By adding up the figures in the budget papers. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I suggest we get the gentleman an abacus. In fact, Main Roads’ estimation is that the amount that will be spent on capital works in regional areas in this coming year will be in excess of $170 million. Mr M.W. Trenorden : How much of that is commonwealth money? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is state government funding. The National Party has made a range of bizarre allegations about road funding. In particular it has attacked us for putting only $20 million a year into black spots funding. Members will recall that in the last year of the Court government, it made a great fanfare about how it was putting $13 million into black spots funding. We pledged in 2001 that we would increase black spots funding for four years to $15 million a year. We have done that. In the last election, we added another $5 million. That means we have now increased black spots funding to $20 million a year. That has been received with great enthusiasm by all the stakeholders, including the Royal Automobile Club of WA. Unfortunately, National Party members seem to suffer from amnesia, because they have forgotten that they were part of the Court coalition government. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the substantial improvement that we have made in black spots funding from $13 million to $20 million. That is a huge leap in the amount of funding. That will continue over the next four years. The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
(1)-(3) I seek some clarification. We have been going through the budget papers, and we are puzzled by some of the figures that the member has used. From where did he get the figure of $108 million? Mr M.W. Trenorden : By adding up the figures in the budget papers. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I suggest we get the gentleman an abacus. In fact, Main Roads’ estimation is that the amount that will be spent on capital works in regional areas in this coming year will be in excess of $170 million. Mr M.W. Trenorden : How much of that is commonwealth money? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is state government funding. The National Party has made a range of bizarre allegations about road funding. In particular it has attacked us for putting only $20 million a year into black spots funding. Members will recall that in the last year of the Court government, it made a great fanfare about how it was putting $13 million into black spots funding. We pledged in 2001 that we would increase black spots funding for four years to $15 million a year. We have done that. In the last election, we added another $5 million. That means we have now increased black spots funding to $20 million a year. That has been received with great enthusiasm by all the stakeholders, including the Royal Automobile Club of WA. Unfortunately, National Party members seem to suffer from amnesia, because they have forgotten that they were part of the Court coalition government. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the substantial improvement that we have made in black spots funding from $13 million to $20 million. That is a huge leap in the amount of funding. That will continue over the next four years. The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
Mr M.W. Trenorden : By adding up the figures in the budget papers. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I suggest we get the gentleman an abacus. In fact, Main Roads’ estimation is that the amount that will be spent on capital works in regional areas in this coming year will be in excess of $170 million. Mr M.W. Trenorden : How much of that is commonwealth money? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is state government funding. The National Party has made a range of bizarre allegations about road funding. In particular it has attacked us for putting only $20 million a year into black spots funding. Members will recall that in the last year of the Court government, it made a great fanfare about how it was putting $13 million into black spots funding. We pledged in 2001 that we would increase black spots funding for four years to $15 million a year. We have done that. In the last election, we added another $5 million. That means we have now increased black spots funding to $20 million a year. That has been received with great enthusiasm by all the stakeholders, including the Royal Automobile Club of WA. Unfortunately, National Party members seem to suffer from amnesia, because they have forgotten that they were part of the Court coalition government. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the substantial improvement that we have made in black spots funding from $13 million to $20 million. That is a huge leap in the amount of funding. That will continue over the next four years. The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I suggest we get the gentleman an abacus. In fact, Main Roads’ estimation is that the amount that will be spent on capital works in regional areas in this coming year will be in excess of $170 million. Mr M.W. Trenorden : How much of that is commonwealth money? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is state government funding. The National Party has made a range of bizarre allegations about road funding. In particular it has attacked us for putting only $20 million a year into black spots funding. Members will recall that in the last year of the Court government, it made a great fanfare about how it was putting $13 million into black spots funding. We pledged in 2001 that we would increase black spots funding for four years to $15 million a year. We have done that. In the last election, we added another $5 million. That means we have now increased black spots funding to $20 million a year. That has been received with great enthusiasm by all the stakeholders, including the Royal Automobile Club of WA. Unfortunately, National Party members seem to suffer from amnesia, because they have forgotten that they were part of the Court coalition government. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the substantial improvement that we have made in black spots funding from $13 million to $20 million. That is a huge leap in the amount of funding. That will continue over the next four years. The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
Mr M.W. Trenorden : How much of that is commonwealth money? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is state government funding. The National Party has made a range of bizarre allegations about road funding. In particular it has attacked us for putting only $20 million a year into black spots funding. Members will recall that in the last year of the Court government, it made a great fanfare about how it was putting $13 million into black spots funding. We pledged in 2001 that we would increase black spots funding for four years to $15 million a year. We have done that. In the last election, we added another $5 million. That means we have now increased black spots funding to $20 million a year. That has been received with great enthusiasm by all the stakeholders, including the Royal Automobile Club of WA. Unfortunately, National Party members seem to suffer from amnesia, because they have forgotten that they were part of the Court coalition government. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the substantial improvement that we have made in black spots funding from $13 million to $20 million. That is a huge leap in the amount of funding. That will continue over the next four years. The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is state government funding. The National Party has made a range of bizarre allegations about road funding. In particular it has attacked us for putting only $20 million a year into black spots funding. Members will recall that in the last year of the Court government, it made a great fanfare about how it was putting $13 million into black spots funding. We pledged in 2001 that we would increase black spots funding for four years to $15 million a year. We have done that. In the last election, we added another $5 million. That means we have now increased black spots funding to $20 million a year. That has been received with great enthusiasm by all the stakeholders, including the Royal Automobile Club of WA. Unfortunately, National Party members seem to suffer from amnesia, because they have forgotten that they were part of the Court coalition government. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the substantial improvement that we have made in black spots funding from $13 million to $20 million. That is a huge leap in the amount of funding. That will continue over the next four years. The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
(1) Why did the minister not provide any funding for the Toodyay bypass, which would prevent 6 000 heavy vehicles a year having to pass through that historic town’s main street? (2) When will the minister commit funds to the Toodyay project, considering she took the funds away? (3) Why has the minister now pushed the commencement date of the Lancelin-Cervantes coastal highway out to 2007-08, thereby forcing tourist and light traffic to mix it with heavy vehicles on the Brand Highway? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the notice of the question. (1)-(3) I seek some clarification. We have been going through the budget papers, and we are puzzled by some of the figures that the member has used. From where did he get the figure of $108 million? Mr M.W. Trenorden : By adding up the figures in the budget papers. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I suggest we get the gentleman an abacus. In fact, Main Roads’ estimation is that the amount that will be spent on capital works in regional areas in this coming year will be in excess of $170 million. Mr M.W. Trenorden : How much of that is commonwealth money? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is state government funding. The National Party has made a range of bizarre allegations about road funding. In particular it has attacked us for putting only $20 million a year into black spots funding. Members will recall that in the last year of the Court government, it made a great fanfare about how it was putting $13 million into black spots funding. We pledged in 2001 that we would increase black spots funding for four years to $15 million a year. We have done that. In the last election, we added another $5 million. That means we have now increased black spots funding to $20 million a year. That has been received with great enthusiasm by all the stakeholders, including the Royal Automobile Club of WA. Unfortunately, National Party members seem to suffer from amnesia, because they have forgotten that they were part of the Court coalition government. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the substantial improvement that we have made in black spots funding from $13 million to $20 million. That is a huge leap in the amount of funding. That will continue over the next four years. The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
(2) When will the minister commit funds to the Toodyay project, considering she took the funds away? (3) Why has the minister now pushed the commencement date of the Lancelin-Cervantes coastal highway out to 2007-08, thereby forcing tourist and light traffic to mix it with heavy vehicles on the Brand Highway? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the notice of the question. (1)-(3) I seek some clarification. We have been going through the budget papers, and we are puzzled by some of the figures that the member has used. From where did he get the figure of $108 million? Mr M.W. Trenorden : By adding up the figures in the budget papers. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I suggest we get the gentleman an abacus. In fact, Main Roads’ estimation is that the amount that will be spent on capital works in regional areas in this coming year will be in excess of $170 million. Mr M.W. Trenorden : How much of that is commonwealth money? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is state government funding. The National Party has made a range of bizarre allegations about road funding. In particular it has attacked us for putting only $20 million a year into black spots funding. Members will recall that in the last year of the Court government, it made a great fanfare about how it was putting $13 million into black spots funding. We pledged in 2001 that we would increase black spots funding for four years to $15 million a year. We have done that. In the last election, we added another $5 million. That means we have now increased black spots funding to $20 million a year. That has been received with great enthusiasm by all the stakeholders, including the Royal Automobile Club of WA. Unfortunately, National Party members seem to suffer from amnesia, because they have forgotten that they were part of the Court coalition government. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the substantial improvement that we have made in black spots funding from $13 million to $20 million. That is a huge leap in the amount of funding. That will continue over the next four years. The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
(3) Why has the minister now pushed the commencement date of the Lancelin-Cervantes coastal highway out to 2007-08, thereby forcing tourist and light traffic to mix it with heavy vehicles on the Brand Highway? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the notice of the question. (1)-(3) I seek some clarification. We have been going through the budget papers, and we are puzzled by some of the figures that the member has used. From where did he get the figure of $108 million? Mr M.W. Trenorden : By adding up the figures in the budget papers. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I suggest we get the gentleman an abacus. In fact, Main Roads’ estimation is that the amount that will be spent on capital works in regional areas in this coming year will be in excess of $170 million. Mr M.W. Trenorden : How much of that is commonwealth money? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is state government funding. The National Party has made a range of bizarre allegations about road funding. In particular it has attacked us for putting only $20 million a year into black spots funding. Members will recall that in the last year of the Court government, it made a great fanfare about how it was putting $13 million into black spots funding. We pledged in 2001 that we would increase black spots funding for four years to $15 million a year. We have done that. In the last election, we added another $5 million. That means we have now increased black spots funding to $20 million a year. That has been received with great enthusiasm by all the stakeholders, including the Royal Automobile Club of WA. Unfortunately, National Party members seem to suffer from amnesia, because they have forgotten that they were part of the Court coalition government. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the substantial improvement that we have made in black spots funding from $13 million to $20 million. That is a huge leap in the amount of funding. That will continue over the next four years. The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the notice of the question. (1)-(3) I seek some clarification. We have been going through the budget papers, and we are puzzled by some of the figures that the member has used. From where did he get the figure of $108 million? Mr M.W. Trenorden : By adding up the figures in the budget papers. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I suggest we get the gentleman an abacus. In fact, Main Roads’ estimation is that the amount that will be spent on capital works in regional areas in this coming year will be in excess of $170 million. Mr M.W. Trenorden : How much of that is commonwealth money? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is state government funding. The National Party has made a range of bizarre allegations about road funding. In particular it has attacked us for putting only $20 million a year into black spots funding. Members will recall that in the last year of the Court government, it made a great fanfare about how it was putting $13 million into black spots funding. We pledged in 2001 that we would increase black spots funding for four years to $15 million a year. We have done that. In the last election, we added another $5 million. That means we have now increased black spots funding to $20 million a year. That has been received with great enthusiasm by all the stakeholders, including the Royal Automobile Club of WA. Unfortunately, National Party members seem to suffer from amnesia, because they have forgotten that they were part of the Court coalition government. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the substantial improvement that we have made in black spots funding from $13 million to $20 million. That is a huge leap in the amount of funding. That will continue over the next four years. The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
I thank the member for the notice of the question. (1)-(3) I seek some clarification. We have been going through the budget papers, and we are puzzled by some of the figures that the member has used. From where did he get the figure of $108 million? Mr M.W. Trenorden : By adding up the figures in the budget papers. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I suggest we get the gentleman an abacus. In fact, Main Roads’ estimation is that the amount that will be spent on capital works in regional areas in this coming year will be in excess of $170 million. Mr M.W. Trenorden : How much of that is commonwealth money? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is state government funding. The National Party has made a range of bizarre allegations about road funding. In particular it has attacked us for putting only $20 million a year into black spots funding. Members will recall that in the last year of the Court government, it made a great fanfare about how it was putting $13 million into black spots funding. We pledged in 2001 that we would increase black spots funding for four years to $15 million a year. We have done that. In the last election, we added another $5 million. That means we have now increased black spots funding to $20 million a year. That has been received with great enthusiasm by all the stakeholders, including the Royal Automobile Club of WA. Unfortunately, National Party members seem to suffer from amnesia, because they have forgotten that they were part of the Court coalition government. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the substantial improvement that we have made in black spots funding from $13 million to $20 million. That is a huge leap in the amount of funding. That will continue over the next four years. The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
(1)-(3) I seek some clarification. We have been going through the budget papers, and we are puzzled by some of the figures that the member has used. From where did he get the figure of $108 million? Mr M.W. Trenorden : By adding up the figures in the budget papers. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I suggest we get the gentleman an abacus. In fact, Main Roads’ estimation is that the amount that will be spent on capital works in regional areas in this coming year will be in excess of $170 million. Mr M.W. Trenorden : How much of that is commonwealth money? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is state government funding. The National Party has made a range of bizarre allegations about road funding. In particular it has attacked us for putting only $20 million a year into black spots funding. Members will recall that in the last year of the Court government, it made a great fanfare about how it was putting $13 million into black spots funding. We pledged in 2001 that we would increase black spots funding for four years to $15 million a year. We have done that. In the last election, we added another $5 million. That means we have now increased black spots funding to $20 million a year. That has been received with great enthusiasm by all the stakeholders, including the Royal Automobile Club of WA. Unfortunately, National Party members seem to suffer from amnesia, because they have forgotten that they were part of the Court coalition government. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the substantial improvement that we have made in black spots funding from $13 million to $20 million. That is a huge leap in the amount of funding. That will continue over the next four years. The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
Mr M.W. Trenorden : By adding up the figures in the budget papers. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I suggest we get the gentleman an abacus. In fact, Main Roads’ estimation is that the amount that will be spent on capital works in regional areas in this coming year will be in excess of $170 million. Mr M.W. Trenorden : How much of that is commonwealth money? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is state government funding. The National Party has made a range of bizarre allegations about road funding. In particular it has attacked us for putting only $20 million a year into black spots funding. Members will recall that in the last year of the Court government, it made a great fanfare about how it was putting $13 million into black spots funding. We pledged in 2001 that we would increase black spots funding for four years to $15 million a year. We have done that. In the last election, we added another $5 million. That means we have now increased black spots funding to $20 million a year. That has been received with great enthusiasm by all the stakeholders, including the Royal Automobile Club of WA. Unfortunately, National Party members seem to suffer from amnesia, because they have forgotten that they were part of the Court coalition government. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the substantial improvement that we have made in black spots funding from $13 million to $20 million. That is a huge leap in the amount of funding. That will continue over the next four years. The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I suggest we get the gentleman an abacus. In fact, Main Roads’ estimation is that the amount that will be spent on capital works in regional areas in this coming year will be in excess of $170 million. Mr M.W. Trenorden : How much of that is commonwealth money? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is state government funding. The National Party has made a range of bizarre allegations about road funding. In particular it has attacked us for putting only $20 million a year into black spots funding. Members will recall that in the last year of the Court government, it made a great fanfare about how it was putting $13 million into black spots funding. We pledged in 2001 that we would increase black spots funding for four years to $15 million a year. We have done that. In the last election, we added another $5 million. That means we have now increased black spots funding to $20 million a year. That has been received with great enthusiasm by all the stakeholders, including the Royal Automobile Club of WA. Unfortunately, National Party members seem to suffer from amnesia, because they have forgotten that they were part of the Court coalition government. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the substantial improvement that we have made in black spots funding from $13 million to $20 million. That is a huge leap in the amount of funding. That will continue over the next four years. The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
Mr M.W. Trenorden : How much of that is commonwealth money? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is state government funding. The National Party has made a range of bizarre allegations about road funding. In particular it has attacked us for putting only $20 million a year into black spots funding. Members will recall that in the last year of the Court government, it made a great fanfare about how it was putting $13 million into black spots funding. We pledged in 2001 that we would increase black spots funding for four years to $15 million a year. We have done that. In the last election, we added another $5 million. That means we have now increased black spots funding to $20 million a year. That has been received with great enthusiasm by all the stakeholders, including the Royal Automobile Club of WA. Unfortunately, National Party members seem to suffer from amnesia, because they have forgotten that they were part of the Court coalition government. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the substantial improvement that we have made in black spots funding from $13 million to $20 million. That is a huge leap in the amount of funding. That will continue over the next four years. The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is state government funding. The National Party has made a range of bizarre allegations about road funding. In particular it has attacked us for putting only $20 million a year into black spots funding. Members will recall that in the last year of the Court government, it made a great fanfare about how it was putting $13 million into black spots funding. We pledged in 2001 that we would increase black spots funding for four years to $15 million a year. We have done that. In the last election, we added another $5 million. That means we have now increased black spots funding to $20 million a year. That has been received with great enthusiasm by all the stakeholders, including the Royal Automobile Club of WA. Unfortunately, National Party members seem to suffer from amnesia, because they have forgotten that they were part of the Court coalition government. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the substantial improvement that we have made in black spots funding from $13 million to $20 million. That is a huge leap in the amount of funding. That will continue over the next four years. The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
The Toodyay bypass is a project that we would like to be able to do. Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
Mr M.W. Trenorden : You removed the funds! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There was no money. Let us get this right. This is yet another National Party myth that there was money in the 2000-01 budget. It was not there. It is not in the budget papers. Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
Mr M.W. Trenorden : It has been removed. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is not in the budget papers. We have not been able to find it. It is another of these claims for which there is no documented evidence to support it. The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
The Toodyay bypass is a worthwhile project. We do not have the money in this year’s budget. There are roads from Wyndham to Esperance that we need to fund. We do not focus just on the lower part of the state, in particular that little bit around the wheatbelt, as may have been the experience of the previous government. We look at the whole state. Brilliant projects are taking place in Broome, Karratha and Albany. All these projects are going on. We cannot do them all. The Toodyay bypass is a project we would like to do. We may be able to fund it out of our new $80 million safer roads program for new capital works. That money has not been fully allocated for 2006-07. I will certainly see whether we can fund it out of that money. The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
The member’s last question was about why our commitment to the Lancelin-Cervantes road has been pushed out to 2007. We went to the last election with a fully funded promise on the Lancelin-Cervantes road. We are meeting this commitment, unlike the National Party, which claimed that it would build that road; however, as we saw when we got the train-wreck figures on the previous government’s budget, of course the full funds were not in there, just as they were not in there for any of the road projects that it had promised.
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