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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2021-06-08" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>54</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Business and Jobs Support Fund</name>
      <text id="20210608d8bddbd877ca43d6b0000207">
        <heading>Business and Jobs Support Fund</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="5413" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. E.S. BOURKE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2021-06-08">
            <name>Business and Jobs Support Fund</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2021-06-08T14:34:11" />
        <text id="20210608d8bddbd877ca43d6b0000208">
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          <by role="member" id="5413">The Hon. E.S. BOURKE (14:34):</by>  I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking the Treasurer a question.</text>
        <text id="20210608d8bddbd877ca43d6b0000209">Leave granted.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5413" kind="question" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. E.S. BOURKE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210608d8bddbd877ca43d6b0000210">
          <by role="member" id="5413">The Hon. E.S. BOURKE:</by>  A leak to the opposition has advised that there are significant funds still unallocated in the business and support fund, and a decision has been made to allocate that funding towards additional capital grants for non-government schools. My questions to the Treasurer are: can the Treasurer confirm that funding from the business and support fund is being reallocated towards additional capital grants for non-government schools? If so, why has the Treasurer decided to reallocate the funding, despite the COVID-19 pandemic still having an impact on South Australian businesses and South Australian jobs?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <page num="3669" />
        <text id="20210608d8bddbd877ca43d6b0000211">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Before I call the Treasurer, there was a fair bit of opinion in that explanation, but I will go to the Treasurer.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="605" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. R.I. LUCAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <startTime time="2021-06-08T14:35:12" />
        <text id="20210608d8bddbd877ca43d6b0000212">
          <timeStamp time="2021-06-08T14:35:12" />
          <by role="member" id="605">The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer) (14:35):</by>  The details of funding application submissions and decisions that the government has taken—I will just point out to the honourable member that there are two COVID-related support funds. One was Business and Jobs Support and one was Community and Jobs Support, and I suspect that there may well be some confusion in the honourable member's mind in relation to those.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. Maher</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210608d8bddbd877ca43d6b0000213">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. Maher:</by>  Not denying it.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210608d8bddbd877ca43d6b0000214">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. Maher</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210608d8bddbd877ca43d6b0000215">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. Maher:</by>  Not denying it at all.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210608d8bddbd877ca43d6b0000216">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! The Leader of the Opposition is out of order.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="605" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. R.I. LUCAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210608d8bddbd877ca43d6b0000217">
          <by role="member" id="605">The Hon. R.I. LUCAS:</by>  The details—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. Maher</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210608d8bddbd877ca43d6b0000218">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. Maher:</by>  Confirming by the silence that this is—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210608d8bddbd877ca43d6b0000219">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. Maher</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210608d8bddbd877ca43d6b0000220">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. Maher:</by>  Why are people leaking against you so much?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210608d8bddbd877ca43d6b0000221">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="605" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. R.I. LUCAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210608d8bddbd877ca43d6b0000222">
          <by role="member" id="605">The Hon. R.I. LUCAS:</by>  The details of any decisions we have taken will be outlined in great detail in just over two weeks.</text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
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