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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2023-05-31T14:15:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>55</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Cost of Sunday Sitting</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Cost of Sunday Sitting</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2023-05-31T04:45:00+09:30" qonNum="245">
            <name>Cost of Sunday Sitting</name>
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          <inserted>245 <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) </by>().23 March 2023).  </inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;What is the total cost to Parliament House, Government House and the Department for Aboriginal Affairs, to bring about an additional parliament sitting day on a Sunday? </inserted>
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        <text id="2023053179e7a3f8307f4c41b0000677">
          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;Will these costs be covered by the existing fund allocation of $10 million over the next four years to implement the South Australian Indigenous Voice to State Parliament, or are they additional costs?</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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          <question date="2023-05-31T04:45:00+09:30" qonNum="245">
            <name>Cost of Sunday Sitting</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector):</by>  </inserted>
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          <inserted>While budget expenditure of Parliament House and Government House are a matter for the presiding officers of the House of Assembly and the Legislative Council and the Governor respectively, I am advised that any costs associated with bringing about an additional parliament sitting day on a Sunday were funded within existing budget allocations and there were no additional costs to Aboriginal Affairs for this purpose.</inserted>
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          <inserted>I am advised that the funding allocated to implement the First Nations Voice to the South Australian Parliament was not used for this purpose.</inserted>
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