House of Assembly Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1) 55 1 Parliament of South Australia House of Assembly published Question Time Algal Bloom Algal Bloom Mr TELFER House of Assembly Flinders Algal Bloom Mr TELFER (Flinders) (14:33): My question is to the Premier. How many businesses impacted by the harmful algal bloom have now applied for small business support grants, and how many grants have been approved or rejected, and why? The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN House of Assembly Lee Treasurer Minister for Defence and Space Industries Minister for Police Algal Bloom The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Treasurer, Minister for Defence and Space Industries, Minister for Police) (14:33): I do have some advice about that, not to hand, but I am pleased to say that we have had more than 50 applications for small business support and, off the top of my head, I think we have already approved more than 30 of those. Some of the other applications have not been approved because those applications may not have been completed. There may be more information that is required to be submitted. I think the information I can provide to the house is that more than half of those applications that have been made across the various levels of financial support that has been approved by the government have already been approved, while the others remain not so much under consideration but in the course of the application process. It is only a very small number that haven't been deemed eligible for the support, principally not because of the parameters of how the support package has been drawn up but more that they are not in the cohort or the catchment of businesses that have been affected or they haven't been affected to an extent that would warrant financial support. But leave it with me and I will get the member those figures.