Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr President. I will go through the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements—the disaster resilience Australia package—where the minister is responsible for the measure but the decisions are delegated to the National Recovery and Resilience Agency. That's $2.1 million for this financial year. The disaster risk reduction package is a package to reduce the risk and impact of disasters on Australians, in line with our Disaster Risk Reduction Framework. It has co-funding, obviously, with the Australian and state and territory governments. Approval for these reports by the minister for emergency management and the National Recovery and Resilience Agency will trigger payments for 2021-22 to the states and territories in June 2022.

Then we have the Emergency Response Fund. This funding is actually to fund emergency response, natural disaster recovery and preparedness initiatives. That is also within the purview of the NRRA. Then we have the Black Summer Bushfire Recovery Grants program, a $280 million grant program over the next three years, which is actually to assist those communities that have been impacted by bushfires. The Minister for Emergency Management and National Recovery and Resilience—that would be me—is the decision-maker. The Local Economic Recovery Program— (Time expired)