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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2020-02-19" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Bushfire Recovery Support</name>
      <text id="2020021940f51b5a69fd46b0b0000204">
        <heading>Bushfire Recovery Support</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5412" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2020-02-19">
            <name>Bushfire Recovery Support</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-02-19T14:57:48" />
        <text id="2020021940f51b5a69fd46b0b0000205">
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          <by role="member" id="5412">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:57):</by>  A further supplementary: did your office then have any role, either in approving or forwarding documents, that may have delayed the expansion of the relief fund rules?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. Lensink</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="2020021940f51b5a69fd46b0b0000206">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. Lensink:</by>  Sorry, can you ask it again?</text>
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        <name>The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="2020021940f51b5a69fd46b0b0000207">
          <by role="member" id="5412">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN:</by>  Did your office have any role, either in approving documents or forwarding documents, that delayed the expansion of the relief fund rules to include Kangaroo Island?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Human Services</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-02-19T14:58:12" />
        <text id="2020021940f51b5a69fd46b0b0000208">
          <timeStamp time="2020-02-19T14:58:12" />
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (14:58):</by>  The State Recovery Office is one of my agencies. We have worked through these technical issues as quickly as possible to ensure that we had all the i's dotted and the t's crossed so that we could ensure that money was being appropriately managed.</text>
        <text id="2020021940f51b5a69fd46b0b0000209">Can I say that we have had a few rounds of grants. The initial category 1 grant, if you like, is for those who have lost family members through death through the fire, and there have been three of those, as we know. One has had a payment from catastrophic injury. The third category is for those people who have lost their home, whether insured or not, which is a separate payment to those of $10,000 and up to $1,000 per child, which is a separate payment to the immediate funding which is available for those people—the re-establishment grants. We are now looking at an additional category, which I have approved, which relates to anybody who has lost infrastructure on their properties, and we are looking in the next category to extending that to small businesses and primary industry.</text>
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