Mr REED - 2003-05-28
In your budget papers, the Commonwealth tied funding for national highways maintenance in 2003-04 is $27.3m, of which the Territory expects to spend only $13.5m in 2003-04 - also shown in the budget papers. Treasurer, why are you failing to spend all of the Commonwealth funding on our deteriorating highways, and where have you siphoned the remaining $13.5m of Commonwealth funds, instead of fixing the roads that are crumbling beneath our wheels?
ANSWER
I thank the former Treasurer and member for Katherine for his question in relation to this $27.3m on roads. I can assure him that, if we are getting $27.3m from the Commonwealth for roads expenditure, that is exactly where it will be spent.
The other half of the question - and I forget the figure he used; I think about $14m or $13m was the amount - was where is the $13m going? It is going on road maintenance.
ANSWER
I thank the former Treasurer and member for Katherine for his question in relation to this $27.3m on roads. I can assure him that, if we are getting $27.3m from the Commonwealth for roads expenditure, that is exactly where it will be spent.
The other half of the question - and I forget the figure he used; I think about $14m or $13m was the amount - was where is the $13m going? It is going on road maintenance.
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