Mr BURKE - 2004-05-18
Madam Speaker, with the minister’s deference, I will have the gall and audacity to ask him another question. You stated in the answer you gave that, in your current budget 2004-05, the cash allocation was $441m; a massive infrastructure spend, you say. Last year’s budget, in your own Budget Paper No 4, page 7, states that the budget allocation cash was $438m. Minister, $438m from $441 is $3m. The CPI inflation rate of the Northern Territory, on your own budget figures, was 2.2%. Will you admit that the capital works infrastructure budget has, in fact, in real terms, been cut?
ANSWER
I will put the graph down, but everyone would have seen when I put it up there, record capital works spend and cash. I need say no more, Madam Speaker. I was speaking to people in the architecture building design industry the other day. The only question they had for me was: is cash spending going to keep on going at the same levels, and are we going to get at least the same amount of work in the next year? I said, yes, they will get that, they will get more, it is an increase. Stop carping!
ANSWER
I will put the graph down, but everyone would have seen when I put it up there, record capital works spend and cash. I need say no more, Madam Speaker. I was speaking to people in the architecture building design industry the other day. The only question they had for me was: is cash spending going to keep on going at the same levels, and are we going to get at least the same amount of work in the next year? I said, yes, they will get that, they will get more, it is an increase. Stop carping!
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