Eligibility - Electors in the Division of Residents of Tasmania
Principal Petitioner:
Eskleigh Foundation Inc PO Box 42 PERTH 7300
Sponsor: Hon Greg Hall MLC
Posting Date: 27/4/2011
Closing Date: 17/5/2011
Tabled Date: 24/5/2011
Responded Minister: Hon Cassy O'Connor on 21/6/2011
50 Signatures
TO: The Honourable the President and Members of the Legislative Council (Tasmania)
That your Petitioners (citizens of Tasmania) draws to the attention of the House, Eskleigh Home, an accommodation service for clients with disabilities, who have recently been denied a portion of their funding and call on the Minister for Human Services to re-evaluate their funding application with a view to meeting their full funding request.
And your Petitioners, therefore, request that the Legislative Council use its influence to urge the Government to ensure Eskleigh Home base funding be increased to an amount agreed between Eskleigh and the Department of Human Services and that this base funding be increased annually by a level at least equivalent to health indexation.