Page 2667 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 28 June 2011

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Section 16A of the act enables the provision of additional appropriation for the payment of abnormally high levels of accrued employee entitlements by direction of the Treasurer. This instrument reimburses the Cultural Facilities Corporation for $65,000 over and above the normal level of appropriation funded long service leave entitlement during the 2010-11 financial year. The appropriation is being on-passed as capital injection.

Section 17 of the act enables variations to appropriations for any increase in existing Commonwealth payments by direction of the Treasurer. This package includes two instruments authorised under section 17 of the act. The first instrument of $45,000 relates to additional funding from the commonwealth for the Legal Aid National Partnership payment to the Legal Aid Commission. This increase in funding is for the provision of legal assistance services.

The second instrument relates to additional funding of $1.804 million received by the Treasury Directorate from the commonwealth to be on-passed to Housing ACT for stage 2 of the social housing construction projects under the National Building and Jobs Plan National Partnership Agreement. The funding is being on-passed as capital injection.

Section 19B of the act allows for an appropriation to be authorised for any new commonwealth payment where no appropriation has been made in respect of those funds by my direction. This package includes four instruments authorised under section 19B of the act reflecting advice from the commonwealth on end of year payments.

The first 19B instrument relates to commonwealth funding of $30,000 received by the territory for the National Quality Agenda for Early Childhood Education and Care National Partnership Agreement. This increase in appropriation will enable the Community Services Directorate to meet grant requirements. The second 19B instrument relates to additional commonwealth funding to various agencies to assist jurisdictions in mitigating the effects of natural disasters, such as bushfires, by undertaking measures such as upgrading fire prevention infrastructure.

The program includes $222,000 to the Justice and Community Safety Directorate for the national disaster resilience program, $23,000 to JACS for the natural disaster mitigation program, $1.138 million to TAMS for the national disaster resilience program, $265,000 to TAMS for the natural disaster mitigation program, $152,000 to TAMS for the bushfire mitigation program, $95,000 to the Education and Training Directorate for the national disaster resilience program, $200,000 to the Community Services Directorate for the national disaster resilience program and $150,000 in capital injection to Housing ACT for the national disaster resilience program.

The third 19B instrument relates to commonwealth funding of $4.513 million received by the territory under the health and hospital fund to be on-passed to the Health Directorate. The funding is being on-passed as a net cost of outputs appropriation.


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