Page 872 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 27 February 2013

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Question put:

That the motion, as amended, be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Motion, as amended, agreed to.

Budget—expenditure restraint

MR SMYTH (Brindabella) (5.04): I move:

That this Assembly:

(1) notes:

(a) that in the 2012-2013 Budget tabled on 5 June 2012, the Government had predicted a deficit of $318.3 million;

(b) that in the Budget Review tabled on Thursday, 14 February 2013, the Government predicted that the deficit for 2012-2013 would deteriorate to $362.9 million;

(c) that for the financial years 2013-14 and 2014-15 the deficit is predicted to increase by $60.4 million to $241.9 million over the two years; and

(d) that the surplus predicted for 2015-16 has deteriorated from $45.6 million in the Pre-election Budget Update to $29.3 million in the mid-year Budget Review, less than 1% of the total budget; and

(2) calls on the Government to:

(a) provide detail on how it will deliver the following expenditure restraint measures, which were promoted in the Treasurer’s press release on 14 February 2013:

(i) driving savings and efficiencies in the use of consultants, advertising, travel and printing;

(ii) delaying projects;

(iii) continuing to review the capital program; and

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