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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 200 asked in the Legislative Council on 22 March 2022 by Hon Martin Aldridge

Parliament: 41 Session: 1

EMERGENCY SERVICES VOLUNTEER FUEL CARD

200. Hon MARTIN ALDRIDGE to the Minister for Emergency Services:

I refer to the Emergency Services Volunteer Fuel Card scheme funded by royalties for regions.

(1) Is the minister aware that in 2017 the McGowan Labor government halved the fuel card value from $2 000 to $1 000?

(2) Is the minister aware that one in three brigades, groups or units fully expend the value of the card?

(3) Is the minister aware that the value of the fuel card in 2016 could purchase around 1 700 litres of petrol compared with just 500 litres today?

(4) Considering rising fuel prices and cost-of-living pressures, will the minister immediately commit to reinstate the original $2 000 value of the card in recognition of the vitally important work of emergency service volunteers?

Hon SAMANTHA ROWE replied:

I thank the member for some notice of the question. I provide the following answer on behalf of the Minister for Emergency Services.

(1) Yes.

(2)–(3) No.

(4) No. The McGowan government takes decision-making on public expenditure seriously, unlike the former Liberal–National government. It is not for an individual minister to make financial commitments outside of a budget process.