Legislative Council - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
2015-09-22 Daily Xml

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Lower Limestone Coast Water Allocation Plan

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (14:35): Will the minister take that particular previous question on notice and bring back a reply? My second supplementary question, and I reiterate the first question, is: when was it decided to change the policy from a delivery component available to all, and crop component on application, to a policy whereby the delivery component needed to be applied for but the crop component would be based on historic records without the need for application? When was the change of policy?

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Climate Change) (14:36): I will have to engage with the NRM board about their determinations about that and find the dates for the honourable member, which I am quite happy to do. As I said previously, I have already put on record the long and substantial correspondence with the community down there through public engagements, through town hall meetings, through letters, notices and journals, etc. If the honourable member would like that information once again, I will bring that back to the chamber as well.