Ms O’CONNOR – The explanation for the variation of the budget in part is that some areas of responsibility have been moved to the Minister for Ageing, but it’s not about election commitment; it’s about – there’s no reallocation in the portfolio.
Ms LOVELL – And there’s no budget line item for the Minister for Ageing. So there’s no allocation –
CHAIR – So where’d the money go? Anyway, if we could have all of those.
Ms OGILVIE – Thank you. I will just ask Noelene to address that.
Ms KELLY – In terms of the Ageing portfolio, the funding still sits within Community Services at this point for 2025-26.
Ms LOVELL – Where is that reflected in the budget?
Ms KELLY – That’s part of the Community Services line, so output 3.3.
Ms LOVELL – Okay.
Ms O’CONNOR – Sorry – just to be clear, that means that the footnote 1:
The Community Services output includes funding for strategies and activities that are the responsibility of the Minister for Ageing.
That cut there, which totals nearly $30 million, is about election commitments that wind up, is it?
CHAIR – We will just ask for a breakdown, if she can give us the breakdown, if we can get that information about the breakdown.
Ms O’CONNOR – The vast sum.
Ms OGILVIE – We would have to get that together for you. Would you like us to take that on notice? There’s a bit of detail involved and we want to get that right. Yes.
Ms O’CONNOR – Can I just say, though, sorry, with the greatest of respect, this is Estimates. You should have expected a question like that first up, given the line item, and I wonder why we have to accept it being taken on notice.
Ms THOMAS – It makes it hard to scrutinise without it.
CHAIR – Well, it’s a bit hard because – yes.
Ms KELLY – Through you, minister: so, I do actually have a table that I can go through and explain it. Given the number of election commitments in 2024 that were one‑offs, there’s quite a number to go through here, so –
Ms LOVELL – Could we table it?
Ms OGILVIE – Well, we’ve offered to table information. I – let me just check. I just want to be careful with the community sector. Okay. That’s fine, then.
CHAIR – Do you want to table that?
Ms OGILVIE – Yes.
