Page 3132 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 12 September 1990
Next page . . . . Previous page . . . . Contents . . . . Debates(HTML) . . . . PDF . . . .
MR MOORE: I certainly do not want credit for this policy. I take credit for the - - -
Mr Collaery: You drew it.
MR MOORE: I am just explaining, Mr Collaery, if you will listen. I did not draft it. The education policy was drafted by Dr Kinloch. The education policy - - -
Mr Collaery: You agreed to it.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR MOORE: I have said that I agreed to it. What I drafted was a policy that I worked on with Del Stevenson and Joan Kellett, and that was not accepted by the Rally as an alternative education policy. That happened also in my house around the great table-tennis table. What I did draft with Joan Kellett and others was a statement that the Rally made that it would increase spending on education by over $7m, and that public statement was put up. I did draft that, and that was adopted by the Executive. That should be the attitude of the Rally, instead of the turnaround where they have seen fit to cut education and to cut individual schools.
Sitting suspended from 12.31 to 2.30 pm
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Community Development Fund
MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, my question is directed to Mr Kaine as the Treasurer. Mr Kaine, in your budget statement you have given a commitment to retain CDF funding at current levels for two years. Since the CDF will be abolished and the funds will not be available for scrutiny, how will the community be able to assess your promise?
MR KAINE: In addition to saying that we would maintain the levels of funding for a further two years so that the current users of the CDF funds would not be disadvantaged, I said that although the money would no longer come out of the CDF the procedures in every other way would remain the same. The means by which people will apply for grants and the process through which grants will be approved will remain the same, and I would expect Ministers to publish a list of grants made from each of their portfolios in just the same way as they do now. The only difference is that the money will come out of the Consolidated Revenue instead of a fund called the Community Development Fund.
MS FOLLETT: I ask a supplementary question. How will the community know how much money would be represented by the CDF amount?
Next page . . . . Previous page . . . . Contents . . . . Debates(HTML) . . . . PDF . . . .