Page 543 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 22 March 2023
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MS LEE: Minister, if you will not or cannot acknowledge these basic financial facts that are captured by RoGS, how on earth can you be trusted to solve the problem?
MS BERRY: Could I ask for that question to be repeated? It did not quite make sense to me.
MS LEE: If you will not or cannot acknowledge these basic financial facts, how on earth can you be trusted to actually solve the problem?
MS BERRY: If the opposition cannot understand that the ACT government pays well above the schooling resource standard and uses data in a way—
Mr Hanson: On a point of order—
MR ACTING SPEAKER: A point of order?
Mr Hanson: the question was very specific, and the supplementary was very specific, about the fact that RoGS has reported that the ACT government has cut real expenditure over a period of a decade by 3.3 per cent.
MR ACTING SPEAKER: What is the point of order?
Mr Hanson: It is not about whether we have the highest funding level in the country; it is about the fact that they have cut it, per capita.
MR ACTING SPEAKER: So your point of order is on relevance?
Mr Hanson: Absolutely, it is. Thank you, Mr Acting Speaker.
MR ACTING SPEAKER: Minister, could you be relevant to the question.
MS BERRY: I can be relevant again, in that the ACT government funds our schools the highest, second to—
Mr Hanson: Not as high as it used to.
MS BERRY: Okay, so you’ve got it now; the opposition finally agrees and understands that schools in the ACT are funded to the highest level in the country.
Gungahlin—multipurpose centre
MR BRADDOCK: My question is to the Chief Minister. Chief Minister, both the Greens and Labor went to the last election promising a multipurpose community centre in Gungahlin Town Centre. Can you please provide an update on this project?
MR BARR: I thank Mr Braddock for the question. I understand close followers of the budget would be aware that in fiscal year 2021-22 we provided funding over two years to progress feasibility and design work as well as further community consultation and input as part of a co-design approach.
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