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  <date date="2025-09-17T10:30:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
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      <heading>Estimates Replies</heading>
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      <name>Business Grants</name>
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          <heading>Business Grants</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4840" referenceid="7be4bfb1b1dd4eaaae45edf2f9c24e36" uid="5eca45fac26f47c8b7304db28ce81a12" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. V.A. TARZIA</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Hartley</electorate>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2025-09-17T01:00:00+09:30">
            <name>Business Grants</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-09-18T00:00:00+09:30" />In reply to <by role="member" id="4840" referenceid="7be4bfb1b1dd4eaaae45edf2f9c24e36" uid="5eca45fac26f47c8b7304db28ce81a12">the Hon. V.A. TARZIA (Hartley—Leader of the Opposition)  </by>(23 June 2025).  (Estimates Committee B)</inserted>
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        <name>The Hon. A. MICHAELS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Enfield</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Small and Family Business</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Consumer and Business Affairs</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Arts</name>
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          <question date="2025-09-17T01:00:00+09:30">
            <name>Business Grants</name>
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            <by role="member" id="5572" referenceid="8d5fbcb4f22e401a94a6418aed69abc2" uid="546b692a8a204027a832dea68ee2ad81">The Hon. A. MICHAELS (Enfield—Minister for Small and Family Business, Minister for Consumer and Business Affairs, Minister for Arts):</by>  I have been advised: </inserted>
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          <inserted>The average grant value was between $5,000 and $14,999. Thirty-nine per cent of approved grants were within this range.</inserted>
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          <inserted>The most common equipment and services funded included:  </inserted>
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            <inserted>power supply and generation—including solar panels, battery storage and control equipment</inserted>
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            <inserted>energy efficient appliances for heating, cooling and refrigeration </inserted>
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            <inserted>motors, pumps and compressors; and</inserted>
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            <inserted>building upgrades which included replacing existing windows and doors with energy efficient variants such as double or triple glazing).</inserted>
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          <inserted>Combined, these grants are estimated to provide an energy cost savings of more than $24.24 million, representing 58,872 MWh as determined by the applicant at the time of submission.</inserted>
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