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Legislative Council - Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)
2012-03-27 Daily Xml
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TOURISM COMMISSION

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (14:35): I have a supplementary question. Was that payment a regular payment of $32,000 over a monthly or quarterly period, and what was the payment for?

The PRESIDENT: You should have included that in your original question.

The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Minister for Forests, Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Tourism, Minister for the Status of Women) (14:35): My understanding is that it was a once-off payment—

The Hon. D.W. Ridgway: An ex gratia payment.

The Hon. G.E. GAGO: I have already said in this place that it was not an ex gratia payment. In terms of the details of that payment, I am just trying to recall: I believe that it had something to do with administrative costs with the dissemination of material, the posting out of material, or some such. Again, I do not have those details with me. It was of an administrative nature, so I believe. As I said, the owner believed that that function was included in the lease. We had initially argued that it was not. As I said, further advice indicated that we were obliged, in fact, to pay the costs of those administrative matters, which we did.

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