Mr MILLS - 2006-02-15
The Auditor-General’s report contains a very clear warning about your spiralling wages bill. This is the very same warning Treasury has been giving you for some time. Page 23 of the Auditor-General’s report shows that last year you blew out your wages bill by more than $120m. Is it not the case that this increase in wages seriously hinders the government’s discretionary funding capability and effectively consumes the GST windfall? Is it not also the case that the wages blow-out is so serious that many government programs and election commitments are now under threat?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Blain for his question. I go immediately to that line that they are getting fond of using: ‘blow-out’ it is called. He says a blow-out in wages. I ask the member for Blain how he can expect anyone to take him seriously when the 2004-05 Budget returned a $51m surplus. That is hardly a blow-out.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Blain for his question. I go immediately to that line that they are getting fond of using: ‘blow-out’ it is called. He says a blow-out in wages. I ask the member for Blain how he can expect anyone to take him seriously when the 2004-05 Budget returned a $51m surplus. That is hardly a blow-out.
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