Mr WOOD - 2015-04-29
You looked a bit sad yesterday when no one from this side asked you a question on the budget, so here are three in one. The only thing in the budget for my electorate was $4.5m for a sewer pumping station and sewer rising main to support a Howard Springs activity centre which does not exist, has not been approved and nobody wants except the Planning Commission. Is this sewer for real or is it just a symbolic gift to the local member?
You announced $1.3m to increase Bees Creek preschool’s capacity. Why is it in this year’s budget papers not the next when it will not start until the last quarter of 2016, the next financial year?
Is $3.2m for drainage upgrades at Humpty Doo not left over money from the $4.5m you did not spend on the same project last year?
ANSWER
Mr Deputy Speaker, I thank my good friend the member for Nelson for that wonderful question. It is great to get a question on the budget from someone on the other side, even it is my good mate the member for Nelson.
Member for Nelson, you have an extraordinarily cynical way of looking at the budget. You have spent far too much time over there and it is not a good look.
I only have three minutes so I will not waste time jesting with the member for Nelson.
The $4.5m sewer pumping station at Howard Springs is shown by the NT Planning Commission’s Darwin Regional Land Use Plan as a rural activity centre. I know the member is not all that thrilled about it, but it is in the same area as the Howards Springs Primary School, shopping centre and tavern.
Mr Wood: It is a long way away.
Mr TOLLNER: It is on the same system. That system is at capacity. I know you are anti-development and do not want anything to happen in the rural area and that sort of caper, but there are increases in usage in that area. While that system is at capacity there can be nothing happening. I think you will welcome $4.5m being spent there.
Power and Water has been engaged by Lands and Planning to look at designing the sewerage system, which will ultimately connect to the reticulation network in Palmerston. I think you will find that your constituents will be very happy to know they will have some capacity in their sewer network in your electorate.
The second part of your question was a doozy. Yesterday I presented Budget 2015-16, which covers the financial year of 2015-16. You asked why it will happen next year, well, the budget is about next financial year. We are still in the 2014-15 financial year.
I think you spend too much time with the members for Arnhem and Namatjira. Next financial year is yet to come. I admit I presented the budget for the next financial year yesterday …
Ms LEE: A point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker! Standing Order 113: relevance. Answer the question, Tollner, instead of talking about …
Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: Member for Arnhem!
Mr TOLLNER: In relation to the drainage works in the rural area, the Humpty Doo activity centre that you are not in favour of requires a bit more drainage and sewer works.
You announced $1.3m to increase Bees Creek preschool’s capacity. Why is it in this year’s budget papers not the next when it will not start until the last quarter of 2016, the next financial year?
Is $3.2m for drainage upgrades at Humpty Doo not left over money from the $4.5m you did not spend on the same project last year?
ANSWER
Mr Deputy Speaker, I thank my good friend the member for Nelson for that wonderful question. It is great to get a question on the budget from someone on the other side, even it is my good mate the member for Nelson.
Member for Nelson, you have an extraordinarily cynical way of looking at the budget. You have spent far too much time over there and it is not a good look.
I only have three minutes so I will not waste time jesting with the member for Nelson.
The $4.5m sewer pumping station at Howard Springs is shown by the NT Planning Commission’s Darwin Regional Land Use Plan as a rural activity centre. I know the member is not all that thrilled about it, but it is in the same area as the Howards Springs Primary School, shopping centre and tavern.
Mr Wood: It is a long way away.
Mr TOLLNER: It is on the same system. That system is at capacity. I know you are anti-development and do not want anything to happen in the rural area and that sort of caper, but there are increases in usage in that area. While that system is at capacity there can be nothing happening. I think you will welcome $4.5m being spent there.
Power and Water has been engaged by Lands and Planning to look at designing the sewerage system, which will ultimately connect to the reticulation network in Palmerston. I think you will find that your constituents will be very happy to know they will have some capacity in their sewer network in your electorate.
The second part of your question was a doozy. Yesterday I presented Budget 2015-16, which covers the financial year of 2015-16. You asked why it will happen next year, well, the budget is about next financial year. We are still in the 2014-15 financial year.
I think you spend too much time with the members for Arnhem and Namatjira. Next financial year is yet to come. I admit I presented the budget for the next financial year yesterday …
Ms LEE: A point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker! Standing Order 113: relevance. Answer the question, Tollner, instead of talking about …
Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: Member for Arnhem!
Mr TOLLNER: In relation to the drainage works in the rural area, the Humpty Doo activity centre that you are not in favour of requires a bit more drainage and sewer works.
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