❓ Question regarding a budget reduction for the Office of Road Safety and the Minister's commitment to road safety. The Minister defends the government's record and commitment, highlighting the 'Towards Zero' strategy and investment in speed cameras.
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OFFICE OF ROAD SAFETY — ALLOCATION REDUCTION
How can the minister claim with any honesty to be making road safety a priority when the budget papers show he has reduced the allocation to the Office of Road Safety by more than $17 million across the current year and the next three years? Mr R.F. JOHNSON
How can the minister claim with any honesty to be making road safety a priority when the budget papers show he has reduced the allocation to the Office of Road Safety by more than $17 million across the current year and the next three years? Mr R.F. JOHNSON
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I think anyone who knows me and this government well realises that I have a 100 per cent commitment to road safety. We are doing many things in that area. We are implementing the Towards Zero strategy, which members opposite tried to bury around election time. They did not like it and they did nothing about it. For about 18 months members opposite were between strategies; they put nothing in place. We have endorsed that strategy. As members know, it is a 12-year strategy. We will see that through. Just because we do not spend all the money in one year does not mean we do not have the commitment. It is a 12-year strategy. We have invested $30 million for more speed cameras because their use results in a significant reduction in the death toll. Mr A.P. O’Gorman : How many times did you get up and criticise us for using them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, I did not. I have been asked a question and I will answer it; I will not take any silly interjections. Excessive speed is the cause of one-third of the deaths on WA roads. A comment was made in the newspaper last week criticising the hundreds of millions of dollars we will get from speeding fines throughout Western Australia. Quite frankly, we will not get any of that money if people do not speed. I will be the happiest man alive if our state does not receive one cent in Multanova fines. I know it might dent our budget and the Treasurer might be unhappy in financial terms, but I and the government will be delighted if we see a reduction in road deaths. I am sure the member will be asking me many questions during the estimates hearing next week. When it is my turn to answer questions, I will be very happy to answer any specific and detailed questions at that time.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: I think anyone who knows me and this government well realises that I have a 100 per cent commitment to road safety. We are doing many things in that area. We are implementing the Towards Zero strategy, which members opposite tried to bury around election time. They did not like it and they did nothing about it. For about 18 months members opposite were between strategies; they put nothing in place. We have endorsed that strategy. As members know, it is a 12-year strategy. We will see that through. Just because we do not spend all the money in one year does not mean we do not have the commitment. It is a 12-year strategy. We have invested $30 million for more speed cameras because their use results in a significant reduction in the death toll. Mr A.P. O’Gorman : How many times did you get up and criticise us for using them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, I did not. I have been asked a question and I will answer it; I will not take any silly interjections. Excessive speed is the cause of one-third of the deaths on WA roads. A comment was made in the newspaper last week criticising the hundreds of millions of dollars we will get from speeding fines throughout Western Australia. Quite frankly, we will not get any of that money if people do not speed. I will be the happiest man alive if our state does not receive one cent in Multanova fines. I know it might dent our budget and the Treasurer might be unhappy in financial terms, but I and the government will be delighted if we see a reduction in road deaths. I am sure the member will be asking me many questions during the estimates hearing next week. When it is my turn to answer questions, I will be very happy to answer any specific and detailed questions at that time.
I think anyone who knows me and this government well realises that I have a 100 per cent commitment to road safety. We are doing many things in that area. We are implementing the Towards Zero strategy, which members opposite tried to bury around election time. They did not like it and they did nothing about it. For about 18 months members opposite were between strategies; they put nothing in place. We have endorsed that strategy. As members know, it is a 12-year strategy. We will see that through. Just because we do not spend all the money in one year does not mean we do not have the commitment. It is a 12-year strategy. We have invested $30 million for more speed cameras because their use results in a significant reduction in the death toll. Mr A.P. O’Gorman : How many times did you get up and criticise us for using them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, I did not. I have been asked a question and I will answer it; I will not take any silly interjections. Excessive speed is the cause of one-third of the deaths on WA roads. A comment was made in the newspaper last week criticising the hundreds of millions of dollars we will get from speeding fines throughout Western Australia. Quite frankly, we will not get any of that money if people do not speed. I will be the happiest man alive if our state does not receive one cent in Multanova fines. I know it might dent our budget and the Treasurer might be unhappy in financial terms, but I and the government will be delighted if we see a reduction in road deaths. I am sure the member will be asking me many questions during the estimates hearing next week. When it is my turn to answer questions, I will be very happy to answer any specific and detailed questions at that time.
Mr A.P. O’Gorman : How many times did you get up and criticise us for using them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, I did not. I have been asked a question and I will answer it; I will not take any silly interjections. Excessive speed is the cause of one-third of the deaths on WA roads. A comment was made in the newspaper last week criticising the hundreds of millions of dollars we will get from speeding fines throughout Western Australia. Quite frankly, we will not get any of that money if people do not speed. I will be the happiest man alive if our state does not receive one cent in Multanova fines. I know it might dent our budget and the Treasurer might be unhappy in financial terms, but I and the government will be delighted if we see a reduction in road deaths. I am sure the member will be asking me many questions during the estimates hearing next week. When it is my turn to answer questions, I will be very happy to answer any specific and detailed questions at that time.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, I did not. I have been asked a question and I will answer it; I will not take any silly interjections. Excessive speed is the cause of one-third of the deaths on WA roads. A comment was made in the newspaper last week criticising the hundreds of millions of dollars we will get from speeding fines throughout Western Australia. Quite frankly, we will not get any of that money if people do not speed. I will be the happiest man alive if our state does not receive one cent in Multanova fines. I know it might dent our budget and the Treasurer might be unhappy in financial terms, but I and the government will be delighted if we see a reduction in road deaths. I am sure the member will be asking me many questions during the estimates hearing next week. When it is my turn to answer questions, I will be very happy to answer any specific and detailed questions at that time.
Excessive speed is the cause of one-third of the deaths on WA roads. A comment was made in the newspaper last week criticising the hundreds of millions of dollars we will get from speeding fines throughout Western Australia. Quite frankly, we will not get any of that money if people do not speed. I will be the happiest man alive if our state does not receive one cent in Multanova fines. I know it might dent our budget and the Treasurer might be unhappy in financial terms, but I and the government will be delighted if we see a reduction in road deaths. I am sure the member will be asking me many questions during the estimates hearing next week. When it is my turn to answer questions, I will be very happy to answer any specific and detailed questions at that time.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: I think anyone who knows me and this government well realises that I have a 100 per cent commitment to road safety. We are doing many things in that area. We are implementing the Towards Zero strategy, which members opposite tried to bury around election time. They did not like it and they did nothing about it. For about 18 months members opposite were between strategies; they put nothing in place. We have endorsed that strategy. As members know, it is a 12-year strategy. We will see that through. Just because we do not spend all the money in one year does not mean we do not have the commitment. It is a 12-year strategy. We have invested $30 million for more speed cameras because their use results in a significant reduction in the death toll. Mr A.P. O’Gorman : How many times did you get up and criticise us for using them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, I did not. I have been asked a question and I will answer it; I will not take any silly interjections. Excessive speed is the cause of one-third of the deaths on WA roads. A comment was made in the newspaper last week criticising the hundreds of millions of dollars we will get from speeding fines throughout Western Australia. Quite frankly, we will not get any of that money if people do not speed. I will be the happiest man alive if our state does not receive one cent in Multanova fines. I know it might dent our budget and the Treasurer might be unhappy in financial terms, but I and the government will be delighted if we see a reduction in road deaths. I am sure the member will be asking me many questions during the estimates hearing next week. When it is my turn to answer questions, I will be very happy to answer any specific and detailed questions at that time.
I think anyone who knows me and this government well realises that I have a 100 per cent commitment to road safety. We are doing many things in that area. We are implementing the Towards Zero strategy, which members opposite tried to bury around election time. They did not like it and they did nothing about it. For about 18 months members opposite were between strategies; they put nothing in place. We have endorsed that strategy. As members know, it is a 12-year strategy. We will see that through. Just because we do not spend all the money in one year does not mean we do not have the commitment. It is a 12-year strategy. We have invested $30 million for more speed cameras because their use results in a significant reduction in the death toll. Mr A.P. O’Gorman : How many times did you get up and criticise us for using them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, I did not. I have been asked a question and I will answer it; I will not take any silly interjections. Excessive speed is the cause of one-third of the deaths on WA roads. A comment was made in the newspaper last week criticising the hundreds of millions of dollars we will get from speeding fines throughout Western Australia. Quite frankly, we will not get any of that money if people do not speed. I will be the happiest man alive if our state does not receive one cent in Multanova fines. I know it might dent our budget and the Treasurer might be unhappy in financial terms, but I and the government will be delighted if we see a reduction in road deaths. I am sure the member will be asking me many questions during the estimates hearing next week. When it is my turn to answer questions, I will be very happy to answer any specific and detailed questions at that time.
Mr A.P. O’Gorman : How many times did you get up and criticise us for using them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, I did not. I have been asked a question and I will answer it; I will not take any silly interjections. Excessive speed is the cause of one-third of the deaths on WA roads. A comment was made in the newspaper last week criticising the hundreds of millions of dollars we will get from speeding fines throughout Western Australia. Quite frankly, we will not get any of that money if people do not speed. I will be the happiest man alive if our state does not receive one cent in Multanova fines. I know it might dent our budget and the Treasurer might be unhappy in financial terms, but I and the government will be delighted if we see a reduction in road deaths. I am sure the member will be asking me many questions during the estimates hearing next week. When it is my turn to answer questions, I will be very happy to answer any specific and detailed questions at that time.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No, I did not. I have been asked a question and I will answer it; I will not take any silly interjections. Excessive speed is the cause of one-third of the deaths on WA roads. A comment was made in the newspaper last week criticising the hundreds of millions of dollars we will get from speeding fines throughout Western Australia. Quite frankly, we will not get any of that money if people do not speed. I will be the happiest man alive if our state does not receive one cent in Multanova fines. I know it might dent our budget and the Treasurer might be unhappy in financial terms, but I and the government will be delighted if we see a reduction in road deaths. I am sure the member will be asking me many questions during the estimates hearing next week. When it is my turn to answer questions, I will be very happy to answer any specific and detailed questions at that time.
Excessive speed is the cause of one-third of the deaths on WA roads. A comment was made in the newspaper last week criticising the hundreds of millions of dollars we will get from speeding fines throughout Western Australia. Quite frankly, we will not get any of that money if people do not speed. I will be the happiest man alive if our state does not receive one cent in Multanova fines. I know it might dent our budget and the Treasurer might be unhappy in financial terms, but I and the government will be delighted if we see a reduction in road deaths. I am sure the member will be asking me many questions during the estimates hearing next week. When it is my turn to answer questions, I will be very happy to answer any specific and detailed questions at that time.
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