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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Emergency Services Levy</name>
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        <heading>Emergency Services Levy</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>Emergency Services Levy</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c" uid="9feade071611495cb3caa6a1706e800f">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) (15:15):</by> Supplementary arising from the answer: why can't the government redirect funding from non-essential government advertising to fund replacement and improvements to equipment to the emergency services rather than hiking up ESL levies?</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Minister, if you are going to choose to answer that question, stand up. If you are not, I am ruling it out of order and we are going to move on.</text>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
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