Senate debates

Thursday, 26 November 2009

Budget

Proposed Additional Expenditure; Consideration by Estimates Committees

3:57 pm

Photo of Nick SherryNick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer) Share this | | Hansard source

I table particulars of proposed expenditure and seek leave to move a motion to refer the following documents to legislative and general purpose standing committees:

Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Attorney-General

Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy

Climate Change (Prime Minister and Cabinet portfolio)

Defence

Education, Employment and Workplace Relations

Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

Finance and Deregulation

Foreign Affairs and Trade

Health and Ageing

Human Services

Immigration and Citizenship

Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government

Innovation, Industry, Science and Research

Prime Minister and Cabinet

Resources, Energy and Tourism

Treasury

Veterans’ Affairs

Leave granted.

I move:

That:

(a)
the documents I have just tabled, together with the final budget outcome 2008-09 tabled on 27 October 2009 and the Issues from the advances under the annual Appropriation Acts for 2008-09 tabled on 27 October 2009, be referred to committees for examination and report; and
(b)
consideration of the Issues from the advances under the annual Appropriation Acts 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.