Page 3043 - Week 11 - Tuesday, 11 September 1990
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Residents Rally
MR BERRY: My question is directed to the Treasurer. Mr Kaine, I refer you to the statement made by your deputy and leader of the Residents Rally, Bernard Collaery. I will just quote Mr Collaery: "It would be inappropriate for the Rally to be involved in executive decision making on education". Has the Deputy Chief Minister been present at any Cabinet deliberation on education since he made that statement?
MR KAINE: As I said to Mr Connolly in answer to an earlier question, I have no intention of telling you, Mr Berry, or anybody else; just as you did not air your dirty linen and your faction fighting in your Cabinet room.
School Closures
MR WOOD: I direct a question to the Chief Minister, and it concerns school closures. Is it now the case that both you and the education Minister are telling school groups and others that recurrent savings are not now so important; it is the capital gains that you want?
MR KAINE: The answer to that question, Mr Speaker, is positively no. I have made it quite clear right from the outset that the school closures program was required to produce two effects. The exercise began as a budgetary exercise, and that is the fact of it. The school closures program grew out of a request from me to the education department and all other agencies to tell me how they would achieve budgetary savings. It was a budgetary exercise that led to this in the first place, and the objective of that was to reduce our recurrent expenditures on our budget. That was the primary objective.
I do not know whether Mr Wood really wants me to answer the question, Mr Speaker.
Mr Wood: I am very happy that you are answering this way.
MR KAINE: You might do me the courtesy of listening, Mr Wood. The objective always was - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order! It being 3.00 pm, I interrupt the business before the Assembly and call on the Chief Minister to present the Appropriation Bill 1990-91 in accordance with the resolution agreed to earlier this day.
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