Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That these bills be now read a second time.

I seek leave to have the second reading speeches incorporated in Hansard.

Leave granted.

The speech es read as follows—

SUPPLY BILL (NO. 3) 2022-2023

The Supply Bill (No. 3) 2022-2023, together with Supply Bill (No. 4) 2022-2023 and Supply (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2022-2023, seeks appropriations to facilitate the continuation of ongoing government business.

The Supply Bill (No. 3) 2022-2023 provides annual appropriations for proposed expenditure on the ordinary annual services of government for broadly the last seven months of 2022-23. Annual appropriations for expenditure on the ordinary annual services of government for broadly the first five months of 2022-23 were provided by the Supply Act (No. 1) 2022-2023.

The Supply Bill (No. 3) 2022-2023 seeks approval for appropriations from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of just under $49 billion.

The Bill must be passed in this sitting week to provide certainty of supply for the ongoing business of government for the remainder of 2022-23, thereby ensuring the continuity of program and service delivery.

The appropriations proposed in this Bill provide an estimated seven-twelfths of the 2022-23 annual appropriations, which are broadly based on the March 2022 Budget estimates and adjusted for a small number of programs and entities that received more than five-twelfths of their annual appropriations in the 2022-23 Supply Acts. This was to provide flexibility for selected entities to manage uneven expenditure early in the financial year.

The Bill reflects the structure of government in line with the Administrative Arrangements Order which commenced on 1 July 2022.

I wish to emphasise that this Bill seeks only to provide funding for the ongoing business of government for the remainder of the 2022-23 financial year. Therefore, no new decisions taken in the October 2022 Budget are included in this Bill. This arrangement enables conventional parliamentary processes, including Senate Estimates hearings, to be followed prior to the enactment of the Budget Appropriation Bills by the Parliament.

The Bill does not contain a provision for an Advance to the Finance Minister (AFM). The AFM provisions in the Supply Act (No. 1) 2022-2023, being $2 billion for COVID-19-related expenditure and $400 million for other urgent and unforeseen expenditure, will continue pending the passage of Budget Appropriation Bill No. 1.

Details of the proposed expenditure are set out in the Schedule to the Bill, the Explanatory Memorandum, and the updated 2022-23 Portfolio Budget Statements tabled in relation to the October 2022 Budget.

I commend this Bill to the chamber.

SUPPLY BILL (NO. 4) 2022-2023

The Supply Bill (No. 4) 2022-2023, along with Supply Bill (No. 3) 2022-2023 andSupply (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2022-2023, seeks appropriations to facilitate the continuation of ongoing government business.

The Supply Bill (No. 4) 2022-2023 provides for annual appropriations that are not for the ordinary annual services of government, such as for capital works and services, payments to states, territories and local governments, and for equity injections for broadly the last seven months of 2022-23. Annual appropriations that are not for the ordinary annual services of government for broadly the first five months of 2022-23 were provided by the Supply Act (No. 2) 2022-2023.

This Bill seeks approval for appropriations from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of just under $10 billion.

The Bill must be passed in this sitting week to provide certainty of supply for the ongoing business of government for the remainder of 2022-23, thereby ensuring the continuity of program and service delivery.

The appropriations proposed in this Bill provide an estimated seven-twelfths of the 2022-23 annual appropriations, which are broadly based on the March 2022 Budget estimates and adjusted for a small number of programs and entities that received more than five-twelfths of their annual appropriations in the 2022-23 Supply Acts. This was to provide flexibility for selected entities to manage uneven expenditure early in the financial year.

The Bill reflects the structure of government in line with the new Administrative Arrangements Order which commenced on 1 July 2022.

As with the Supply Bill (No. 3) 2022-2023, this Bill seeks only to provide funding for the ongoing business of government for the remainder of the 2022-23 financial year. Therefore, no new decisions taken in the October 2022 Budget are included in this Bill. This arrangement enables conventional parliamentary processes, including Senate Estimates hearings, to be followed prior to the enactment of the October 2022 Budget Appropriation Bills by the Parliament.

The Supply Act (No. 2) 2022-2023 established debit limits for general purpose financial assistance and national partnership payments under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 for the full 2022-23 financial year. Therefore, no further debit limits have been included in this Bill.

The Bill does not contain a provision for an Advance to the Finance Minister (AFM). The AFM provisions in the Supply Act (No. 2) 2022-2023, being $3 billion for COVID-19-related expenditure and $600 million for other urgent and unforeseen expenditure, will continue pending the passage of Budget Appropriation Bill No. 2.

Details of the proposed expenditure are set out in the Schedules to the Bill, the Explanatory Memorandum, and the updated 2022-23 Portfolio Budget Statements tabled in relation to the October 2022 Budget.

I commend this Bill to the chamber.

SUPPLY (PARLIAMENTARY DEPARTMENTS) BILL (NO. 2) 2022-2023

The Supply (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2022-2023 provides appropriations for broadly the last seven months of 2022-23 for the operations of:

This Bill seeks approval for appropriations from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of approximately $155 million.

The appropriations proposed in this Bill provide an estimated seven-twelfths of the 2022-23 annual appropriations, which are broadly based on the March 2022 Budget estimates.

The Bill must be passed in this sitting week to provide certainty of supply for the Parliamentary Departments for the remainder of 2022-23, thereby ensuring the continuity of the Parliament's operations.

As with the other additional 2022-23 Supply Bills, I wish to emphasise that this Bill seeks only to provide funding for the ongoing business of government for the remainder of the 2022-23 financial year. Therefore, no new decisions taken in the October 2022 Budget are included in this Bill. This arrangement enables conventional parliamentary processes, including Senate Estimates hearings, to be followed prior to the enactment of the October 2022 Budget Appropriation Bills by the Parliament.

Details of the proposed expenditure are set out in the Schedule to the Bill, the Explanatory Memorandum, and the updated 2022-23 Portfolio Budget Statements tabled in relation to the October 2022 Budget.

I commend this Bill to the chamber.