Chris Bowen (Prospect, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I appreciate the minister’s response and look forward to a more detailed answer. There could be a perfectly legitimate and reasonable explanation and I have misunderstood it. On my reading of it, particularly the sentence ‘The fiscal impact over three years 2007-08 to 2009-10 is due to funds being fully expended as projects are completed’, it is very unusual in that normally funds are expended when they are spent.

Another matter which the minister has more direct responsibility for is the government fleet. Is the minister able to provide, either now or on notice, information on the government fleet—in particular, the number or percentage of the government fleet that is able to use ethanol, how many of the fleet are fitted out to use LPG, and whether the minister has any knowledge or is able to ascertain a breakdown of those questions in relation to Comcar, the SES cars that are part of the government fleet and the private plated vehicles? I am not interested in individuals or parties, only a total. Does the minister have any information on that?

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