Hansard - ACT Legislative Assembly

Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 9 Hansard (2 September) . . Page.. 2915 ..

Since the introduction of contract Executive employment twenty five Executives have received temporary accommodation allowance.

(2) Messrs Butt, Clarke, Cusack, Ellis, Gilmour, Hawkins, Hughes, Johnston,

Keady, Lee Koo, Lilley, MacDiarmid, Murray, Ockwell, Rayment, Ryan,

Spencer, Thompson, Tiball, Veenker, Walker and White, and Ms Bondfield,

Ford and Lennon.

(3) The duration of temporary accommodation allowances varies from individual

to individual. Executives who have purchased homes in Canberra cease to be

eligible for temporary accommodation allowance; others have left the Service;

while still others continue to receive the allowance in accordance with the

provisions of their contracts.

(4) The yearly average cost for each Executive in receipt of allowances is $6,057

over the four years since the introduction of the contract system, or $116 per

week. Details of the individual amounts, totals and average are contained in

the attached table.