House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
2023-02-08 Daily Xml

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Fruit Fly

In reply to Mr WHETSTONE (Chaffey) (20 June 2022). (Estimates Committee A)

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Minister for Forest Industries): I have been advised:

On any given day in the Riverland, fruit fly response teams can spend significant amounts of time combatting the outbreaks which are currently being eradicated. Also, some of the significant costs associated with the response (for example the rearing and release of millions of sterile fruit flies) are applied across many outbreak areas simultaneously.

For these reasons, it is very difficult to reflect the costs of the response at an individual outbreak level.