Page 3145 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 12 September 1990
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improvement - why have you elected to close down the Gaming and Liquor Authority and transfer its functions to the Public Service?
MR KAINE: That is a very interesting question, Mr Speaker, because only a matter of weeks ago I was being beaten around the ears by the Opposition because I was blindly going to implement all the recommendations of the PRB. Now, because I come up with one that we are not going to implement, you are beating me around the head with that one as well. You cannot have your cake and eat it, Mr Connolly.
The fact is that the Government has examined the operations of the Gaming and Liquor Authority and has made its conclusion that the business can be done better. If you talk to a lot of people involved in the business of racing and people who are associated with the TAB - if you have not done so already - you will find that a lot of people are of the view that the TAB is not returning to the community what similar organisations in the States return. The Government has examined that matter and has come to the conclusion that the business of the Gaming and Liquor Authority can be done in a better way, and the Government is putting those better arrangements into place.
MR CONNOLLY: Mr Speaker, I ask a supplementary question. Is there any other area of the Public Service that the Priorities Review Board or any other body has demonstrated to have shown such dramatic productivity figures as those of the Gaming and Liquor Authority?
MR SPEAKER: I do not believe that is a supplementary question.
Ministry for Health, Education and the Arts - Staff Reductions
MR WOOD: Mr Speaker, I direct a question to Mr Humphries, the Minister for Education. Mr Humphries, the budget papers indicate a decline of 71 positions in the staffing levels. Could you indicate what and where those positions are in general?
MR HUMPHRIES: I think Mr Wood is referring to figures across both areas of the ministry.
Mr Wood: No.
MR HUMPHRIES: Well, you did not specify.
Mr Wood: The Schools Authority account.
MR HUMPHRIES: You did not say "Schools Authority". You just said - - -
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