Page 1807 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 18 October 1989
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because the questioner, I think - and I am speaking from memory - was under the impression that it was the whole operation of the Government rather than of the Assembly itself that was subject to the Assembly's budget - the $4.5m that was referred to.
Mr Speaker, you would certainly appreciate that the Assembly's budget was devised very much in consultation between you, the Speaker, and me and my Treasury officials. The administration of the Assembly's budget is, of course, a matter for the Speaker. So there is a slightly different process there from the whole of the budget package.
Mr Humphries: How? How is it different?
MS FOLLETT: Mr Humphries asks: how is it different? For example, in the estimates process that we have just been through Mr Speaker, I believe, attended that Estimates Committee to talk about the Assembly's budget; I did not, as Treasurer. He took the questions on that.
Mr Humphries: Who sets the final amount?
MS FOLLETT: The final amount was decided in negotiation between the Speaker and me.
Youth Housing
MR STEFANIAK: My question is addressed to the Minister for Housing and Urban Services. I see in yesterday's Chronicle that Mrs Grassby was quoted as saying, as we know, that up to 30 houses will be allocated to groups of people over 16. She then went on to say that many of the houses will be linked to an existing network of supervision provided by community groups and that houses will then be graded up to a point where there is a graduate house with minimum supervision. I would like to ask her: firstly, how many of those 30 houses will be linked to an existing network of supervision; secondly, what type of supervision is envisaged, and what does she mean by "minimum supervision"?
MRS GRASSBY: Thank you, Mr Stefaniak. At the moment we do not know how many. It depends on how many people come forward in the community from groups such as the Rotary clubs and the Lions clubs. As Mr Kaine already knows, one is being run by the Lions on the southside. It depends on just how many people come forward and how many apply to be supervised.
In cases where they need to be supervised, as I said to you before, there would be no way we would be putting 16-year-olds into houses without supervision. So we do not know the number. We have put that number of houses by at the moment, hoping that we will get quite a few of the community groups out there, such as churches, the Salvation Army, Rotary clubs, Lions clubs and organisations like that
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