Page 1084 - Week 03 - Thursday, 26 February 2009
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MR SPEAKER: Mr Doszpot, I think you are making a preamble. Move to the question, please.
MR DOSZPOT: I am getting to the question, Mr Speaker—in its capital works budget with $107.4 million rolled over in 2007-08 and $124.2 million in 2006-07. Treasurer, what actions have you taken to ensure that the managers of the projects in the third appropriation bill deliver them on time and on budget?
MS GALLAGHER: I think I have probably covered this off in my previous answers. All the projects have been closely measured against the capacity within the industry to do the work—the fact that the work is ready to go in terms of leaving the relevant departments—and we have sought assurances from all agencies involved that this work will be delivered on time. The appropriation over two years reflects those discussions and this will be closely monitored.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Doszpot, a supplementary?
MR DOSZPOT: Treasurer, how much of the third appropriation bill are you prepared to roll over?
Mr Corbell: I raise a point of order. That is a hypothetical question, Mr Speaker.
Opposition members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Corbell: “How much will you be prepared to roll over?” It assumes there will be a rollover, and that is hypothetical.
Opposition members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Doszpot, would you like to try and reframe the question?
MR DOSZPOT: Mr Speaker, I think it is quite a logical question. It is not assumptive. We are asking how much of the third appropriation bill are you prepared to roll over. Have you made any—
Mrs Dunne: Have you made any provision for rollover?
MS GALLAGHER: The provision of the cash is found in the budget papers. It is clear. Those figures do not have any provision for rollover. We have not counted that in. That is not what we would normally do in any budget paper and we have not done it in this. We are working very hard on making sure that the projects are delivered on time and on budget.
I guess the flip side of the nature of the questioning from the opposition is that we should not be doing this in case we have to roll it over. That is the theme I am picking up—that we should not act because we might not deliver it. What a ridiculous
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