House of Assembly - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)
2019-10-15 Daily Xml

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Renewal SA

1400 The Hon. A. PICCOLO (Light) (24 September 2019). The revised funding arrangements for Renewal SA's Lot Fourteen, Bowden and Tonsley projects. 2019-20 Budget Paper No. 3, p. 82 explains that: 'Payments made to Renewal SA for capital works on these projects will be delivered via an equity contribution rather than an operating payment.' Can you confirm that as a result of this change in accounting, community service obligation payments used to fund non-commercial activities will be significantly cut on these projects?

1. Can you provide detail of all the projects, activities and programs which will be cut or adversely affected because of the significant reduction to community service obligation payments for the Lot Fourteen, Bowden and Tonsley projects?

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL (Schubert—Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Local Government, Minister for Planning): I have been advised the following by Renewal SA—

The reduction in community service obligation payments is driven by a change in the mechanism used by government to provide funding to Renewal SA and this does not mean a reduction to the total level of funding.

There are no adverse impacts on these projects given that the overall level of funding provided to Renewal SA to undertake the Lot Fourteen, Bowden and Tonsley projects has not been cut.