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The review will ensure that any changes proposed provide for expeditious handling of claims. It will consider the possibility of there being one or a limited number of insurers, which could be a government insurer or a private insurer or a mix of both. It will ensure the cost-effectiveness of any proposed scheme and provide costing details for options on any proposed scheme which may include a levy on premiums to cover costs of administering workers compensation, occupational health and safety, and related rehabilitation schemes.
The consultant will advise on the need for work related accident statistics, actuarial and other information needs in an ongoing system. Finally, the review will recommend an appropriate structure for monitoring premium levels. Consideration should also be given to the desirability of premiums being based on industry rather than occupation and to there being fewer premium classifications, whether cross-subsidisation should be introduced and how good or bad claims records could be recognised in calculating premiums.
I would like to thank the Assembly for its support, and I undertake to keep it informed at all stages as the consultancy progresses. I present the following paper:
Workers compensation - Consultancy - Terms of reference.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Sitting suspended from 12.18 to 2.30 pm
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
ACT Funding
MR KAINE: I would like to direct a question to the Chief Minister and Treasurer. By her own admission, on Tuesday night she had a meeting with the Prime Minister to discuss the $295m that she has asked for. It is now Thursday, 2.30 pm, and although she has given the media the benefit of a briefing on the subject, would she now give this Assembly the benefit and the courtesy of a briefing on that meeting? In particular, would she tell us whether or not the Prime Minister has given any undertaking to give us the $150m in respect of the hospital restructuring and, secondly, whether the Prime Minister has given any undertaking to give us all or any part of the $22.7m of our money that has been squirreled away in a Commonwealth hollow log?
MS FOLLETT: I thank Mr Kaine for the question. I am a bit surprised that my meeting with the Prime Minister has apparently taken other members by surprise, because Mr Kaine asked me a direct question in another meeting we had
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