Senate debates

Thursday, 4 December 2008

Budget

Proposed Additional Expenditure; Consideration by Estimates Committees

3:06 pm

Photo of John FaulknerJohn Faulkner (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Cabinet Secretary) Share this | | Hansard source

I table particulars of proposed expenditure, as well as the Issues from the Advance to the Finance Minister as a final charge for the year ended 30 June 2008 and the final budget outcome 2007-08.

I seek leave to move a motion to refer the documents to legislative and general purpose standing committees.

Leave granted.

I move:

That––

(a)  the documents, together with the final budget outcome 2007-08 (see entry no. 2, 14 October 2008) and the Advance to the Finance Minister as a final charge for the year ended 30 June 2008 (see entry no. 2, 11 November 2008), be referred to committees for examination and report; and

(b) consideration of the Issues from the Advance to the Finance Minister as a final charge for the year ended 30 June 2008 in committee of the whole be made an order of the day for the day on which committees report on their examination of the additional estimates.

Question agreed to.