Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The New Deal initiative has been undertaken and it's all been handled with funding from within up until now. We have never requested any additional resources to implement this whole initiative. Things have been going very well. However, it's taken up the dedication from a lot of our staff people. There are a number of projects that have been deferred and delayed because of that. The trans fund didn't move forward as fast as we would like it to happen because we needed the resources to work on a New Deal. That's the same with the discussion paper on the Planning Act. The granular study was something that didn't go as quickly as we wanted because we didn't have the resources. We had indicated we needed $100,000 to provide the support. It was recommended that this be reduced. We figure we can go ahead and $50,000 will help us. It will mean that we can't move ahead on some of the initiatives that we are working on now, including the Planning Act, the Lotteries Act and a number of things. If the money is not there, we will really have a problem. It's a huge undertaking to do some of this work that requires us to provide the technical work, the financial analysis and the training support to community governments as we progress. It's something we need to do and we can't move away from it. If the resources are not there for us to support this, then we will have to take it from other places.
Michael McLeod on Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on May 14th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
May 14th, 2007
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