❓ A National Party MP questions the FESA budget, citing concerns in rural communities. The Minister responds by highlighting the positive impact of the emergency services levy and agrees to provide a briefing to National Party members.
AnsweredQoN 82Legislative Assembly
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Given the high level of concern in country communities about the Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia’s budget, within the next two weeks will the minister - (a) provide full-year budget details to 30 June 2004, including income and expenditure breakdowns for each project and unit statewide; (b) provide income and expenditure estimates for 2004-05 for each project and unit statewide; and (c) provide parliamentary members of the National Party with a briefing on FESA income and expenditure? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS
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I thank the member for notice of the question. I advise the member that the government has had an incredibly positive response, particularly in country regional areas, to the funding provided by the emergency services levy. Only last week, in the presence of the Chief Executive Officer of FESA, Bob Mitchell, and the member for Kimberley, I opened the Packsaddle Fire Station in Kununurra. They were certainly very pleased with the $85 000 that went towards that station. On 21 May we will open - it sounds pretty simple - a toilet block for the State Emergency Service in the electorate of the member for Swan Hills. They are the kinds of facilities that the State Emergency Service has not been able to have funded until now. For the first time there is proper funding of the State Emergency Service in this state. There are some 26 000 volunteers in the emergency services area throughout Western Australia, and we are aiming to keep it that way. We are supporting those emergency service workers through the emergency services levy and the funding that is provided for the State Emergency Service. It has meant that we have been able to provide vastly more training, more protective equipment and more appliances, and we have been able to construct more fire sheds. I will be delighted to get the Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia to provide National Party members with a full briefing on the FESA budget within the fortnight the Leader of the National Party has requested.
(a) provide full-year budget details to 30 June 2004, including income and expenditure breakdowns for each project and unit statewide; (b) provide income and expenditure estimates for 2004-05 for each project and unit statewide; and (c) provide parliamentary members of the National Party with a briefing on FESA income and expenditure? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for notice of the question. I advise the member that the government has had an incredibly positive response, particularly in country regional areas, to the funding provided by the emergency services levy. Only last week, in the presence of the Chief Executive Officer of FESA, Bob Mitchell, and the member for Kimberley, I opened the Packsaddle Fire Station in Kununurra. They were certainly very pleased with the $85 000 that went towards that station. On 21 May we will open - it sounds pretty simple - a toilet block for the State Emergency Service in the electorate of the member for Swan Hills. They are the kinds of facilities that the State Emergency Service has not been able to have funded until now. For the first time there is proper funding of the State Emergency Service in this state. There are some 26 000 volunteers in the emergency services area throughout Western Australia, and we are aiming to keep it that way. We are supporting those emergency service workers through the emergency services levy and the funding that is provided for the State Emergency Service. It has meant that we have been able to provide vastly more training, more protective equipment and more appliances, and we have been able to construct more fire sheds. I will be delighted to get the Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia to provide National Party members with a full briefing on the FESA budget within the fortnight the Leader of the National Party has requested.
(b) provide income and expenditure estimates for 2004-05 for each project and unit statewide; and (c) provide parliamentary members of the National Party with a briefing on FESA income and expenditure? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for notice of the question. I advise the member that the government has had an incredibly positive response, particularly in country regional areas, to the funding provided by the emergency services levy. Only last week, in the presence of the Chief Executive Officer of FESA, Bob Mitchell, and the member for Kimberley, I opened the Packsaddle Fire Station in Kununurra. They were certainly very pleased with the $85 000 that went towards that station. On 21 May we will open - it sounds pretty simple - a toilet block for the State Emergency Service in the electorate of the member for Swan Hills. They are the kinds of facilities that the State Emergency Service has not been able to have funded until now. For the first time there is proper funding of the State Emergency Service in this state. There are some 26 000 volunteers in the emergency services area throughout Western Australia, and we are aiming to keep it that way. We are supporting those emergency service workers through the emergency services levy and the funding that is provided for the State Emergency Service. It has meant that we have been able to provide vastly more training, more protective equipment and more appliances, and we have been able to construct more fire sheds. I will be delighted to get the Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia to provide National Party members with a full briefing on the FESA budget within the fortnight the Leader of the National Party has requested.
(c) provide parliamentary members of the National Party with a briefing on FESA income and expenditure? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for notice of the question. I advise the member that the government has had an incredibly positive response, particularly in country regional areas, to the funding provided by the emergency services levy. Only last week, in the presence of the Chief Executive Officer of FESA, Bob Mitchell, and the member for Kimberley, I opened the Packsaddle Fire Station in Kununurra. They were certainly very pleased with the $85 000 that went towards that station. On 21 May we will open - it sounds pretty simple - a toilet block for the State Emergency Service in the electorate of the member for Swan Hills. They are the kinds of facilities that the State Emergency Service has not been able to have funded until now. For the first time there is proper funding of the State Emergency Service in this state. There are some 26 000 volunteers in the emergency services area throughout Western Australia, and we are aiming to keep it that way. We are supporting those emergency service workers through the emergency services levy and the funding that is provided for the State Emergency Service. It has meant that we have been able to provide vastly more training, more protective equipment and more appliances, and we have been able to construct more fire sheds. I will be delighted to get the Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia to provide National Party members with a full briefing on the FESA budget within the fortnight the Leader of the National Party has requested.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for notice of the question. I advise the member that the government has had an incredibly positive response, particularly in country regional areas, to the funding provided by the emergency services levy. Only last week, in the presence of the Chief Executive Officer of FESA, Bob Mitchell, and the member for Kimberley, I opened the Packsaddle Fire Station in Kununurra. They were certainly very pleased with the $85 000 that went towards that station. On 21 May we will open - it sounds pretty simple - a toilet block for the State Emergency Service in the electorate of the member for Swan Hills. They are the kinds of facilities that the State Emergency Service has not been able to have funded until now. For the first time there is proper funding of the State Emergency Service in this state. There are some 26 000 volunteers in the emergency services area throughout Western Australia, and we are aiming to keep it that way. We are supporting those emergency service workers through the emergency services levy and the funding that is provided for the State Emergency Service. It has meant that we have been able to provide vastly more training, more protective equipment and more appliances, and we have been able to construct more fire sheds. I will be delighted to get the Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia to provide National Party members with a full briefing on the FESA budget within the fortnight the Leader of the National Party has requested.
I thank the member for notice of the question. I advise the member that the government has had an incredibly positive response, particularly in country regional areas, to the funding provided by the emergency services levy. Only last week, in the presence of the Chief Executive Officer of FESA, Bob Mitchell, and the member for Kimberley, I opened the Packsaddle Fire Station in Kununurra. They were certainly very pleased with the $85 000 that went towards that station. On 21 May we will open - it sounds pretty simple - a toilet block for the State Emergency Service in the electorate of the member for Swan Hills. They are the kinds of facilities that the State Emergency Service has not been able to have funded until now. For the first time there is proper funding of the State Emergency Service in this state. There are some 26 000 volunteers in the emergency services area throughout Western Australia, and we are aiming to keep it that way. We are supporting those emergency service workers through the emergency services levy and the funding that is provided for the State Emergency Service. It has meant that we have been able to provide vastly more training, more protective equipment and more appliances, and we have been able to construct more fire sheds. I will be delighted to get the Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia to provide National Party members with a full briefing on the FESA budget within the fortnight the Leader of the National Party has requested.
I advise the member that the government has had an incredibly positive response, particularly in country regional areas, to the funding provided by the emergency services levy. Only last week, in the presence of the Chief Executive Officer of FESA, Bob Mitchell, and the member for Kimberley, I opened the Packsaddle Fire Station in Kununurra. They were certainly very pleased with the $85 000 that went towards that station. On 21 May we will open - it sounds pretty simple - a toilet block for the State Emergency Service in the electorate of the member for Swan Hills. They are the kinds of facilities that the State Emergency Service has not been able to have funded until now. For the first time there is proper funding of the State Emergency Service in this state. There are some 26 000 volunteers in the emergency services area throughout Western Australia, and we are aiming to keep it that way. We are supporting those emergency service workers through the emergency services levy and the funding that is provided for the State Emergency Service. It has meant that we have been able to provide vastly more training, more protective equipment and more appliances, and we have been able to construct more fire sheds. I will be delighted to get the Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia to provide National Party members with a full briefing on the FESA budget within the fortnight the Leader of the National Party has requested.
(a) provide full-year budget details to 30 June 2004, including income and expenditure breakdowns for each project and unit statewide; (b) provide income and expenditure estimates for 2004-05 for each project and unit statewide; and (c) provide parliamentary members of the National Party with a briefing on FESA income and expenditure? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for notice of the question. I advise the member that the government has had an incredibly positive response, particularly in country regional areas, to the funding provided by the emergency services levy. Only last week, in the presence of the Chief Executive Officer of FESA, Bob Mitchell, and the member for Kimberley, I opened the Packsaddle Fire Station in Kununurra. They were certainly very pleased with the $85 000 that went towards that station. On 21 May we will open - it sounds pretty simple - a toilet block for the State Emergency Service in the electorate of the member for Swan Hills. They are the kinds of facilities that the State Emergency Service has not been able to have funded until now. For the first time there is proper funding of the State Emergency Service in this state. There are some 26 000 volunteers in the emergency services area throughout Western Australia, and we are aiming to keep it that way. We are supporting those emergency service workers through the emergency services levy and the funding that is provided for the State Emergency Service. It has meant that we have been able to provide vastly more training, more protective equipment and more appliances, and we have been able to construct more fire sheds. I will be delighted to get the Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia to provide National Party members with a full briefing on the FESA budget within the fortnight the Leader of the National Party has requested.
(b) provide income and expenditure estimates for 2004-05 for each project and unit statewide; and (c) provide parliamentary members of the National Party with a briefing on FESA income and expenditure? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for notice of the question. I advise the member that the government has had an incredibly positive response, particularly in country regional areas, to the funding provided by the emergency services levy. Only last week, in the presence of the Chief Executive Officer of FESA, Bob Mitchell, and the member for Kimberley, I opened the Packsaddle Fire Station in Kununurra. They were certainly very pleased with the $85 000 that went towards that station. On 21 May we will open - it sounds pretty simple - a toilet block for the State Emergency Service in the electorate of the member for Swan Hills. They are the kinds of facilities that the State Emergency Service has not been able to have funded until now. For the first time there is proper funding of the State Emergency Service in this state. There are some 26 000 volunteers in the emergency services area throughout Western Australia, and we are aiming to keep it that way. We are supporting those emergency service workers through the emergency services levy and the funding that is provided for the State Emergency Service. It has meant that we have been able to provide vastly more training, more protective equipment and more appliances, and we have been able to construct more fire sheds. I will be delighted to get the Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia to provide National Party members with a full briefing on the FESA budget within the fortnight the Leader of the National Party has requested.
(c) provide parliamentary members of the National Party with a briefing on FESA income and expenditure? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for notice of the question. I advise the member that the government has had an incredibly positive response, particularly in country regional areas, to the funding provided by the emergency services levy. Only last week, in the presence of the Chief Executive Officer of FESA, Bob Mitchell, and the member for Kimberley, I opened the Packsaddle Fire Station in Kununurra. They were certainly very pleased with the $85 000 that went towards that station. On 21 May we will open - it sounds pretty simple - a toilet block for the State Emergency Service in the electorate of the member for Swan Hills. They are the kinds of facilities that the State Emergency Service has not been able to have funded until now. For the first time there is proper funding of the State Emergency Service in this state. There are some 26 000 volunteers in the emergency services area throughout Western Australia, and we are aiming to keep it that way. We are supporting those emergency service workers through the emergency services levy and the funding that is provided for the State Emergency Service. It has meant that we have been able to provide vastly more training, more protective equipment and more appliances, and we have been able to construct more fire sheds. I will be delighted to get the Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia to provide National Party members with a full briefing on the FESA budget within the fortnight the Leader of the National Party has requested.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for notice of the question. I advise the member that the government has had an incredibly positive response, particularly in country regional areas, to the funding provided by the emergency services levy. Only last week, in the presence of the Chief Executive Officer of FESA, Bob Mitchell, and the member for Kimberley, I opened the Packsaddle Fire Station in Kununurra. They were certainly very pleased with the $85 000 that went towards that station. On 21 May we will open - it sounds pretty simple - a toilet block for the State Emergency Service in the electorate of the member for Swan Hills. They are the kinds of facilities that the State Emergency Service has not been able to have funded until now. For the first time there is proper funding of the State Emergency Service in this state. There are some 26 000 volunteers in the emergency services area throughout Western Australia, and we are aiming to keep it that way. We are supporting those emergency service workers through the emergency services levy and the funding that is provided for the State Emergency Service. It has meant that we have been able to provide vastly more training, more protective equipment and more appliances, and we have been able to construct more fire sheds. I will be delighted to get the Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia to provide National Party members with a full briefing on the FESA budget within the fortnight the Leader of the National Party has requested.
I thank the member for notice of the question. I advise the member that the government has had an incredibly positive response, particularly in country regional areas, to the funding provided by the emergency services levy. Only last week, in the presence of the Chief Executive Officer of FESA, Bob Mitchell, and the member for Kimberley, I opened the Packsaddle Fire Station in Kununurra. They were certainly very pleased with the $85 000 that went towards that station. On 21 May we will open - it sounds pretty simple - a toilet block for the State Emergency Service in the electorate of the member for Swan Hills. They are the kinds of facilities that the State Emergency Service has not been able to have funded until now. For the first time there is proper funding of the State Emergency Service in this state. There are some 26 000 volunteers in the emergency services area throughout Western Australia, and we are aiming to keep it that way. We are supporting those emergency service workers through the emergency services levy and the funding that is provided for the State Emergency Service. It has meant that we have been able to provide vastly more training, more protective equipment and more appliances, and we have been able to construct more fire sheds. I will be delighted to get the Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia to provide National Party members with a full briefing on the FESA budget within the fortnight the Leader of the National Party has requested.
I advise the member that the government has had an incredibly positive response, particularly in country regional areas, to the funding provided by the emergency services levy. Only last week, in the presence of the Chief Executive Officer of FESA, Bob Mitchell, and the member for Kimberley, I opened the Packsaddle Fire Station in Kununurra. They were certainly very pleased with the $85 000 that went towards that station. On 21 May we will open - it sounds pretty simple - a toilet block for the State Emergency Service in the electorate of the member for Swan Hills. They are the kinds of facilities that the State Emergency Service has not been able to have funded until now. For the first time there is proper funding of the State Emergency Service in this state. There are some 26 000 volunteers in the emergency services area throughout Western Australia, and we are aiming to keep it that way. We are supporting those emergency service workers through the emergency services levy and the funding that is provided for the State Emergency Service. It has meant that we have been able to provide vastly more training, more protective equipment and more appliances, and we have been able to construct more fire sheds. I will be delighted to get the Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia to provide National Party members with a full briefing on the FESA budget within the fortnight the Leader of the National Party has requested.
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