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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2014-11-11" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, First Session (53-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>53</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>House of Assembly</house>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding>
    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
    <text id="2014111156b42b993d3a484680001626">
      <heading>Estimates Replies</heading>
    </text>
    <subject>
      <name>Targeted Voluntary Separation Packages</name>
      <text id="2014111156b42b993d3a484680001627">
        <heading>Targeted Voluntary Separation Packages</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="question">
        <name>In reply to Mr MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Dunstan</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2014-11-11">
            <name>Targeted Voluntary Separation Packages</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="2014111156b42b993d3a484680001628">In reply to <by role="member" id="4338">Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition)</by> (17 July). (Estimates Committee B)</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="633" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">West Torrens</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Finance</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for State Development</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Small Business</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2014-11-11">
            <name>Targeted Voluntary Separation Packages</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="2014111156b42b993d3a484680001629">
          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens—Treasurer, Minister for Finance, Minister for State Development, Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy, Minister for Small Business):</by>
        </text>
        <text id="2014111156b42b993d3a484680001630">The following information is provided on behalf of all ministers. TVSPs are only one means by which an agency can achieve its FTE reductions. Others include natural attrition, not filling vacancies and not renewing employment contracts.</text>
        <text id="2014111156b42b993d3a484680001631">A budget for TVSPs is not set at the agency level. Instead, a whole of government budget provision is established, held in a central contingency and paid to agencies as required.</text>
        <text id="2014111156b42b993d3a484680001632">The contingency provision held at the time of the 2014-15 budget is shown in the following table.</text>
        <text id="2014111156b42b993d3a484680001633">
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            <row>
              <cell />
              <cell>2014-15 $m</cell>
              <cell>2015-16 $m</cell>
              <cell>2016-17 $m</cell>
              <cell>2017-18 $m</cell>
            </row>
            <row>
              <cell>Provision</cell>
              <cell>19.0</cell>
              <cell>12.0</cell>
              <cell>—</cell>
              <cell>—</cell>
            </row>
          </table>
        </text>
        <text id="2014111156b42b993d3a484680001634" />
      </talker>
    </subject>
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