Page 3172 - Week 07 - Thursday, 30 June 2011

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Members, this is the last line of the appropriation bill and it does highlight the failures of this Treasurer. She failed to be open and accountable when she told me that, prospectively, it was only somewhere near $5 million, not the $21 million that has occurred. It is a failure of leadership. It is a failure of Treasury—

Mr Coe: $16 million between friends, Brendan.

MR SMYTH: What the hell, it is only $16 million—and failing the ACT community at the time when she had been preaching cost savings in her budget speeches for three years.

Proposed expenditure agreed to.

Total appropriations—$2,532,743,000 (net cost of outputs), $1,207,781,000 (capital injection) and $459,362,000 (payments on behalf of the territory), totalling $4,231,286,000 agreed to.

Clauses 1 to 8, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Clause 9.

MS GALLAGHER (Molonglo—Chief Minister, Minister for Health and Minister for Industrial Relations) (2.31 am): I move amendment No 1 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 3176]. This renames the former Chief Minister’s Department as the Chief Minister and Cabinet Directorate.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 9, as amended, agreed to.

Clauses 10 and 11, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Schedule 2.

MS GALLAGHER (Molonglo—Chief Minister, Minister for Health and Minister for Industrial Relations) (2.31 am), by leave: I move amendments Nos 6 and 7 circulated in my name together [see schedule 1 at page 3176]. Both of these amendments rename directorates that changed due to the administrative arrangement changes during the budget process.

Amendments agreed to.

Schedule 2, as amended, agreed to.

Title.

MS GALLAGHER (Molonglo—Chief Minister, Minister for Health and Minister for Industrial Relations) (2.32 am): At this point I stand to acknowledge that during the


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