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  <date date="2020-09-08" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Disability Funding</name>
      <text id="20200908d099716ba29a4cf6b0000294">
        <heading>Disability Funding</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="2020-09-08">
            <name>Disability Funding</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-09-08T16:23:37" />
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          <by role="member" id="5412">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (16:23):</by>  Given the minister's reference to that additional funding which is available to the state, is she saying that the Royal Society for the Blind will have funding reinstated to them?</text>
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      <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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        <questions>
          <question date="2020-09-08">
            <name>Disability Funding</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-09-08T16:23:54" />
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (16:23):</by>  No. Look, we have been very clear as a party in terms of the previous block funding arrangements that organisations were receiving. Under the previous arrangements all organisations were block funded. Those arrangements have ceased as of 30 June 2019, and that is no secret to anybody. There were other grant programs which were available, I think there might have been some ILC grant funding or something of that nature.</text>
        <text id="20200908d099716ba29a4cf6b0000297">I would need to double-check, but the state did make some grants to some organisations because it had some cash available that was then distributed to some non-government organisations. The previous arrangements that organisations were used to, where they were block funded to provide services, has not been the case in South Australia and, as far as I understand, apart from those states that are continuing to transition, will cease for all jurisdictions.</text>
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