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      <name>Drought Assistance</name>
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        <heading>Drought Assistance</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI</name>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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            <name>Drought Assistance</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) (14:38):</by>  Supplementary: how often has the PIRSA advisory group met on this topic in the past two months and what contingencies has the government put in place around that financial year budget?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development</name>
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            <name>Minister for Forest Industries</name>
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            <name>Drought Assistance</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Minister for Forest Industries) (14:38):</by>  The advisory group was established—I think its first meeting was about three weeks ago but I am happy to check that. As I mentioned, that is being chaired by the chief executive of PIRSA. We continue to analyse a situation which, of course, can be potentially changing quite regularly, and any budget adjustments that might need to be made will go through the usual processes.</text>
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