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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Emergency Services Levy</name>
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        <heading>Emergency Services Levy</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="546" kind="question">
        <name>Mr WILLIAMS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">MacKillop</electorate>
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            <name>Emergency Services Levy</name>
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          <by role="member" id="546">Mr WILLIAMS (MacKillop) (14:37):</by>  My question is also to the Treasurer. Can the Treasurer confirm that his department held a meeting on 6 May this year with the company Prophecy IT to discuss upgrading the online billing system to facilitate the rise in the emergency services levy a full week before the federal budget was handed down?</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The leader is called to order. The Treasurer.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="633" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">West Torrens</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Finance</name>
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            <name>Minister for State Development</name>
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            <name>Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy</name>
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            <name>Minister for Small Business</name>
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          <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) (14:37):</by>  No, I cannot confirm that. I will go back and check, but I can inform the house that the government did not make a decision to remove the remissions on the emergency services levy before the commonwealth budget. If the member has evidence contrary to that, I would ask him to provide it to the house immediately.</text>
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        <name>Ms Chapman</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="1804">Ms Chapman:</by>  You could ask your department.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The deputy leader is called to order. Leader.</text>
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