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  <date date="2015-12-01" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Housing SA</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Housing SA</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4340" kind="question">
        <name>Ms SANDERSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Adelaide</electorate>
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          <question date="2015-10-15" qonNum="171">
            <name>Housing SA</name>
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          <inserted>171 <by role="member" id="4340">Ms SANDERSON (Adelaide)</by> (15 October 2015).  In relation to full time equivalents in Budget Paper 4, Volume 1, page 115—</inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;Can the minister please explain the drop in FTEs from 30.5 in 2013-14 to 12 in 2015-16?</inserted>
        </text>
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          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;Have all of these staff been transferred to Renewal SA?</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4623" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. Z.L. BETTISON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Ramsay</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Communities and Social Inclusion</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Social Housing</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Multicultural Affairs</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Ageing</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Youth</name>
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            <name>Minister for Volunteers</name>
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          <question date="2015-10-15" qonNum="171">
            <name>Housing SA</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4623">The Hon. Z.L. BETTISON (Ramsay—Minister for Communities and Social Inclusion, Minister for Social Housing, Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Minister for Ageing, Minister for Youth, Minister for Volunteers):</by>  I have been advised: </inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;&amp;#x9;For the 2013-14 and 2014-15 budgets, an estimated result of 30.5 FTEs was reported. Consistent with long-standing practice, this figure was derived by aggregating the estimated effort on policy-related activities by all staff providing operational services on behalf of the South Australian Housing Trust, and therefore did not correspond to specific FTE roles.</inserted>
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          <inserted>For 2015-16, this methodology was replaced, and the estimated 12 FTEs as at 30 June 2015 reported for the 2015-16 budget correspond to specific FTE roles within Housing SA.</inserted>
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        <text id="201512013ab7bb6587ea473890001135">
          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;&amp;#x9;The decrease is a result of the change of methodology and not a result of staff transferring to Renewal SA.</inserted>
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