Page 2860 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 22 November 1989
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MR SPEAKER: Mr Collaery, if it is the wish of the Assembly, we can take this through division by division, but at this stage what we are looking at is the whole of that section as one.
MR COLLAERY: That is the problem, because I thought we were doing it division by division.
MR SPEAKER: Is it the wish of the Assembly to take these by division?
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, I do not care, as long as we know again what the rules are. I would prefer to take it division by division so that we know what is going on.
MR SPEAKER: Do you wish to so move, Mr Collaery?
MR COLLAERY: I move:
That we deal with parts I and II of the schedule to the Appropriation Bill 1989-90 by divisions.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Division 20.1, $503,900, agreed to.
Division 20.2, $353,500, agreed to.
Division 30.1, $20,531,800
MR COLLAERY (4.16): I have some comments to make on this expenditure. It is now some months since the question of the Government's policy with respect to superannuation for public servants was raised. It has been mentioned from time to time, but I do place on the record the fact that we are still awaiting some clarification of the view the Treasury will adopt in relation to the ACT Government's employer contribution for the Commonwealth superannuation scheme, the question of the general revenue grant - which was reduced and, I believe, replaced - and other matters relating to employer contributions.
There are wider concerns, as to whether there will be an ACT superannuation fund and whether the other superannuation funds will be coordinated in relation to the existing statutory authorities, some of which are recommended by the Estimates Committee to become part of the general bureaucracy.
We have not had a definitive statement from the Government. I would have thought, with respect to the Treasurer, that perhaps the Assembly could have had a response by now on this very important issue involving employer contributions in 1988-89 of $60m. In terms of financial transition, that will go on for several years in the ACT, but clearly the big question is whether the ACT superannuation fund will be established or whether we will continue to use the superannuation fund investment trust.
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