Page 472 - Week 02 - Thursday, 11 February 2021
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MS BERRY: This is not an issue that the ACT government faces on its own. Mr Parton will know that this week I referred to the National Rental Affordability Scheme, which finishes up soon, which really did assist people to get into their homes. That is in the federal government’s program areas and is a way that they can provide funding to support community housing and public housing to make sure that accommodation is available for people.
In addition to that, the decrease in the JobSeeker funding—whatever it is called, whatever the welfare arrangement is—is affecting people’s ability to afford to get into homes of their own, whether that is public housing or not. In addition to that, former governments’ decisions to cut penalty rates for low income earners in the ACT have definitely affected their ability to have a home of their own and to be able to live a decent life. It is not just an ACT problem.
Opposition members interjecting—
MS BERRY: It has got worse.
MADAM SPEAKER: Members, allow the minister to answer.
Mr Coe interjecting—
MS BERRY: I had not finished.
MADAM SPEAKER: I was calling people to order. Ms Berry, you have the floor and you have 40 seconds left.
Mr Hanson: Madam Speaker, on calling people to order, I note that it was Mr Barr who was debating Mr Parton, and Mr Barr debated Mrs Jones and Mr Coe.
MADAM SPEAKER: Sit down, Mr Hanson.
Mr Hanson: You only call opposition members to order. I ask that you be even-handed in these matters.
Opposition members interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Members, please allow the minister to conclude in the time she has left, if she wishes to.
Mr Hanson interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: No more, Mr Hanson. Are you finishing, Ms Berry?
MS BERRY: Yes, thank you, Madam Speaker. As I said, the ACT government is doing its bit—absolutely its bit, way more than the rest of the country—in its per capita contribution to public housing in the ACT: $1 billion over 10 years to increase and provide different kinds of public housing in the ACT. We cannot do it on our
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