Personal Explanation

VALEDICTORY SPEECH

Mrs REDMOND (Heysen—Leader of the Opposition) (17:58): I seek leave to make a personal explanation.

Leave granted.

Mrs REDMOND: It is really not of any great moment; it is just because I like to be as accurate as I can and I want to make it clear to the parliament. In the valedictory speech that I gave on 25 November, just as we were closing the session for last year, I mentioned two things in which I made an error. One was that I referred to a cut for the funding for library services in this place. That was what I had been told was occurring, but I found out subsequently that there was no cut; it was just that someone who was employed and had gone on maternity leave had a fill-in replacement and that replacement was being moved. So I want to correct the record as far as that goes.

In the same speech, I also referred to a state debt of $8.6 billion and I want to correct the record, because in the forward estimates the state debt will not indeed reach that level; it will reach $7.5 billion, but the figure of $8.6 billion was actually a figure for what our state exports have gone down to since this government has been in power.

At 18:00 the house adjourned until Wednesday 9 February 2011 at 11:00.