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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 6 Hansard (24 May) . . Page.. 1654 ..
MR STANHOPE: Mr Speaker, I have a supplementary question. Acknowledging that the minister for health described to the Canberra Times the need for the discretionary funds was to give him "the wherewithal to implement my goals", is the Treasurer confident that the cabinet and the Assembly, indeed the Canberra community, are fully aware of Mr Moore's goals?
MR HUMPHRIES: Absolutely. The entire community knows perfectly well where-
MR SPEAKER: I am not even sure that you should answer that question. You do not know what Mr Moore's goals are.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I would interpret that as a question about the government's goals, the goals of the minister of health, as stated already in a public way in the Setting the Agenda document that was published sometime last year. It clearly sets out what the government proposes to do about health in this territory. Of course, the painful part for those opposite is that we have plan, we have a strategy for dealing with health-something which was sadly lacking when those opposite were on this side of the chamber.
MR KAINE: My question is to the Chief Minister and the minister for fast cars. That latter reference has nothing to do with the car she drives; it has to do with the V8 supercar event soon to be staged in the parliamentary triangle. Chief Minister, you have previously given figures as to what this is going to cost the ACT taxpayer. Do you see any need at the moment to revise those previously announced figures and can you confirm that the costs will come in according to, or even under, your budget as announced some time ago?
MS CARNELL: Thank you very much, Mr Kaine, for the question. Just recently I asked the CEO and the chairman of the board of CTEC how the budget was tracking and they said it was tracking very well. So they were very comfortable with the amount that is allocated.
Mr Humphries: Fast tracking very well?
MS CARNELL: In fact, they were fast tracking.
MR KAINE: Chief Minister, I presume you have voluminous notes with you in order to answer questions. Could you refresh our minds as to what these figures were when you last announced them?
MS CARNELL
: I actually do not have voluminous notes with me. From memory, the ACT government allocated $2.5 million in recurrent funding, and certainly there is $2.5 million for the GMC 400 in the budget that Mr Humphries brought down yesterday. That is the recurrent funding over five years of the contract that we have to run the event. There was also $7 million for the capital works that we put through this Assembly. So, to
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