ACT Treasurer Katy Gallagher has come out swinging in finally responding to the estimates committee report on her budget.
- “The Committee report provides no input into the Budget as a whole, nor does it offer any suggestions on the Budget Plan, its object, targets, approach or the process of implementation.
“Many of the recommendations have little, if anything, to do with the actual Budget – recommendations such as extending the size of MLAs email inboxes, extending the deadlines for answering questions on notice and others in relation to the proposed purchase of Calvary Public Hospital.
“Instead, the report calls for more inquiries, more processes, more red tape, more green tape and more resources for the Liberals and Greens.”
Yesterday Zed Seselja announced the Liberals would vote against the budget. We now await a statement by the Greens.