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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2021-11-18" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>COVID-19 Business Support</name>
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        <heading>COVID-19 Business Support</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="6802" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. R.A. SIMMS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2021-11-18">
            <name>COVID-19 Business Support</name>
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        <startTime time="2021-11-18T15:19:15" />
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          <by role="member" id="6802">The Hon. R.A. SIMMS (15:19):</by>  Supplementary: just to confirm, Treasurer, aside from monitoring you are not doing anything in terms of providing any support to businesses at the moment?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="605" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. R.I. LUCAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2021-11-18">
            <name>COVID-19 Business Support</name>
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        <startTime time="2021-11-18T15:19:28" />
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          <timeStamp time="2021-11-18T15:19:28" />
          <by role="member" id="605">The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer) (15:19):</by>  No, we actually provided state government funded assistance to Mount Gambier recently. In relation to what might exist today, the answer to the question is we are doing a lot. We are trying to reduce the cost of doing business for everybody so that their businesses can grow. If you are talking about: do we have a grant program for those businesses that are failing and are in trouble? We do not have a grant program at the moment for those businesses that are failing, or closing, or running into specific problems in relation to COVID. I can't be any more explicit than that. It is a direct answer to a direct question.</text>
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