John Cobb (Calare, National Party, Shadow Minister for Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government and concerns the 86 projects that were processed and approved. Given that it is going to be at least 12 months, if not 18 months or longer, before you actually provide them with any money and given the fact that a lot of those projects have had an escalation of costs since last November, are you going to give the projects more money—if they need it—than their original application was for? That is question No. 1. Question No. 2 is: given that a lot of those were time-critical as of November—and I am not saying any particular ones or all of them—and had to start their projects, if they have had to begin will you still okay them? You have done nothing about this in eight or nine months and it will be at least 12 or 18 months before they get anything. Will you not penalise them because of your tardiness? My last question is: will you release a list of the 490 projects which were not assessed?

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