❓ Question on Notice regarding the impact of a 2% efficiency dividend on the Department of Environment and Conservation, specifically concerning air quality monitoring, forest management, and climate change strategy delays. The Minister's response deflects and provides limited information.
AnsweredQoN 198Legislative Council
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DEPARTMENT
OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION — EFFICIENCY DIVIDEND
198. Hon SALLY TALBOT to the minister representing the
Minister for Environment:
I refer to the two per cent efficiency dividend announced by
the Treasurer on 17 April 2012 and ask —
(1) What is
the dollar value of the two per cent cut for the Department of Environment and
Conservation?
(2) Can the
minister assure the WA community that cuts will not be made to air quality
monitoring programs and resourcing the forest management plan—two of
the government's targets in the 2009 efficiency cuts?
(3) Will the
cuts further delay the release of the government's climate change
adaptation and mitigation strategy—another victim of the 2008 cuts?
OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION — EFFICIENCY DIVIDEND
198. Hon SALLY TALBOT to the minister representing the
Minister for Environment:
I refer to the two per cent efficiency dividend announced by
the Treasurer on 17 April 2012 and ask —
(1) What is
the dollar value of the two per cent cut for the Department of Environment and
Conservation?
(2) Can the
minister assure the WA community that cuts will not be made to air quality
monitoring programs and resourcing the forest management plan—two of
the government's targets in the 2009 efficiency cuts?
(3) Will the
cuts further delay the release of the government's climate change
adaptation and mitigation strategy—another victim of the 2008 cuts?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the member for some notice of this question, and in
the words of Hon Robyn McSweeney, I
think it was something like, ''You'd be lucky!'' Was that
it?
Hon Liz Behjat : ''Tell us you're dreaming!''
Hon HELEN MORTON : That is it—''Tell us she is
dreaming!''
(1)–(2)
The dollar value of the two per cent efficiency dividend will be announced as
part of the 2012–13 budget. As announced by the Treasurer on 17 April
2012, this will not impact on front-line service delivery.
(3) No.
the words of Hon Robyn McSweeney, I
think it was something like, ''You'd be lucky!'' Was that
it?
Hon Liz Behjat : ''Tell us you're dreaming!''
Hon HELEN MORTON : That is it—''Tell us she is
dreaming!''
(1)–(2)
The dollar value of the two per cent efficiency dividend will be announced as
part of the 2012–13 budget. As announced by the Treasurer on 17 April
2012, this will not impact on front-line service delivery.
(3) No.
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