Page 3493 - Week 08 - Thursday, 23 August 2012
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additional $2.9 million over four years to support the operational capacity of ACT Corrective Services. It will provide additional resources to meet increases in service demand and will assist with the supervision of offenders on community-based orders and the preparation of reports for both the sentencing court and the releasing authorities. The funding will also assist with the cost of AMC repairs and maintenance, which will be needed as equipment begins to age through wear and tear, and assist with the cost of utilities at the AMC.
The 2012-13 budget provides $250,000 to upgrade older Corrective Services facilities and commence planned upgrades in the AMC, which has now been in operation for three years. This funding is in addition to the directorate’s annual capital upgrade program, which includes $121,000 for upgrade of Corrective Services facilities. As the AMC is a 24-hour, high-use operational facility, it is important that regular work is undertaken to ensure that the facility remains in this sound, safe and functional condition.
The Sentence Administration Board secretariat has been allocated $50,000 so that an electronic document system can be implemented. This will replace the current hard copy, paper file system for board members, which I am sure they will appreciate, and result in a significant reduction of paper consumption and recycling costs.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Mrs Dunne): The time allocated for debate on part 1.12 has expired.
Proposed expenditure agreed to.
Part 1.13—Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate—$74,824,000 (net cost of outputs), $21,052,000 (capital injection) and $1,767,000 (payments on behalf of the territory), totalling $97,643, 000.
MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Attorney-General, Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development) (10.40): I was going to propose that the Assembly adjourn the debate at this point, given the progress we have made this evening, and I was going to suggest the Assembly may wish to return to the budget debate tomorrow, given that we have made excellent progress, but I am in the hands of members. If I see shaking of heads, then the government has no objection, but I was going to indicate that we do not need to progress as late as perhaps we would otherwise, because of progress to date. I take it that there is a desire to continue.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: The view is that we are going to keep going.
MS LE COUTEUR (Molonglo) (10.40): I am here to talk about the planning part of the ESD Directorate. My colleague Mr Rattenbury will speak more about the environmental part of the ESD Directorate.
Planning, of course, is incredibly important. Canberra is a planned city, and we need to do the planning well. It needs to take into account realistic transport, communication and living needs. We need to plan to make living in Canberra cheaper,
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