❓ Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries responds to a question regarding flood damage assessment in Wellstead. A national committee couldn't visit due to logistical constraints, but alternative assessment measures are being undertaken by state officials.
AnsweredQoN 906Legislative Council
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FLOODING, WELLSTEAD AREA
Further to our conversation of last week, has the minister been successful in his request for the appropriate committee to investigate the seasonal conditions in the Wellstead and adjoining areas for aid following the recent floods that resulted in almost total crop and income loss? Hon KIM CHANCE
Further to our conversation of last week, has the minister been successful in his request for the appropriate committee to investigate the seasonal conditions in the Wellstead and adjoining areas for aid following the recent floods that resulted in almost total crop and income loss? Hon KIM CHANCE
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. The short answer is no. The national rural advisory committee was present in Western Australia at that time carrying out assessments for exceptional circumstances applications in the north eastern and south eastern wheatbelt. My office contacted Hon Dexter Davies, who was travelling with that committee, to see if it was logistically possible for it to visit the area. While Hon Dexter Davies and the committee made every attempt to go to the area, it was not logistically possible. I have no power to direct the committee, because it operates under direction of the federal minister. However, Hon Dexter Davies, Mr Mark Chmeilewski from my office and an officer from the Department of Agriculture Albany, probably Steve Porritt, will be travelling in the area tomorrow and Thursday to carry out their own assessment and to compile the assessment material that has already been prepared over the past few days.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. The short answer is no. The national rural advisory committee was present in Western Australia at that time carrying out assessments for exceptional circumstances applications in the north eastern and south eastern wheatbelt. My office contacted Hon Dexter Davies, who was travelling with that committee, to see if it was logistically possible for it to visit the area. While Hon Dexter Davies and the committee made every attempt to go to the area, it was not logistically possible. I have no power to direct the committee, because it operates under direction of the federal minister. However, Hon Dexter Davies, Mr Mark Chmeilewski from my office and an officer from the Department of Agriculture Albany, probably Steve Porritt, will be travelling in the area tomorrow and Thursday to carry out their own assessment and to compile the assessment material that has already been prepared over the past few days.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. The short answer is no. The national rural advisory committee was present in Western Australia at that time carrying out assessments for exceptional circumstances applications in the north eastern and south eastern wheatbelt. My office contacted Hon Dexter Davies, who was travelling with that committee, to see if it was logistically possible for it to visit the area. While Hon Dexter Davies and the committee made every attempt to go to the area, it was not logistically possible. I have no power to direct the committee, because it operates under direction of the federal minister. However, Hon Dexter Davies, Mr Mark Chmeilewski from my office and an officer from the Department of Agriculture Albany, probably Steve Porritt, will be travelling in the area tomorrow and Thursday to carry out their own assessment and to compile the assessment material that has already been prepared over the past few days.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. The short answer is no. The national rural advisory committee was present in Western Australia at that time carrying out assessments for exceptional circumstances applications in the north eastern and south eastern wheatbelt. My office contacted Hon Dexter Davies, who was travelling with that committee, to see if it was logistically possible for it to visit the area. While Hon Dexter Davies and the committee made every attempt to go to the area, it was not logistically possible. I have no power to direct the committee, because it operates under direction of the federal minister. However, Hon Dexter Davies, Mr Mark Chmeilewski from my office and an officer from the Department of Agriculture Albany, probably Steve Porritt, will be travelling in the area tomorrow and Thursday to carry out their own assessment and to compile the assessment material that has already been prepared over the past few days.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. The short answer is no. The national rural advisory committee was present in Western Australia at that time carrying out assessments for exceptional circumstances applications in the north eastern and south eastern wheatbelt. My office contacted Hon Dexter Davies, who was travelling with that committee, to see if it was logistically possible for it to visit the area. While Hon Dexter Davies and the committee made every attempt to go to the area, it was not logistically possible. I have no power to direct the committee, because it operates under direction of the federal minister. However, Hon Dexter Davies, Mr Mark Chmeilewski from my office and an officer from the Department of Agriculture Albany, probably Steve Porritt, will be travelling in the area tomorrow and Thursday to carry out their own assessment and to compile the assessment material that has already been prepared over the past few days.
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