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Budget 2004

The Budget 2004 Overview

Strong, secure and sustainable New Zealand

Corrections:
  • $180 million over three years toward new prison construction.
  • $30 million increase in 2004-05, rising to $40 million from 2005-06, for staff training, property maintenance and prison health services.
  • $1.1 million in the current financial year and in 2004-05 for support services to the New Zealand Parole Board.
Biosecurity:
  • $46.5 million over four years to improve New Zealand's biosecurity defences, particularly marine biosecurity.
Core public service:
  • $1 billion to ensure departmental baselines are adequate to the task; including substantial increases to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Children Young Persons and Their Families Service, Corrections, Defence and Inland Revenue.
  • $5 million to increase Customs air and sea border surveillance.
  • $14.8 million over four years to fund secure online government services, including $240,000 capital funding.
  • $20.6 million broadcasting package.
Already announced:
  • $73.4 million to tackle court delays.
  • $3.5 million capital over two years for a new courthouse in Queenstown.
  • $40 million over four years to tackle the methamphetamine trade and organised crime.
  • $14.9 million over four years to set up Four Family Safety Teams to deal with domestic violence.
  • $9 million over four years to increase jurors' fees.
  • $14.8 million to form dedicated National Security Teams to counter terrorism.
  • $13 million to build and $1.8 million over four years to run a new Wiri police centre.
  • $381,000 over the next two years to support the work of Youth Offending Teams
  • $12 million over four years for the Pacific Security Fund.
  • $70 million over four years for Statistics New Zealand.
  • $2.6 million to allow more than 6000 low-income families to have their homes made more energy efficient.
  • Another six million carbon credits to be offered for tender for climate friendly projects.
  • $4 million over four years for research into recreational fishing.
  • $4.3 million over four years to increase surveillance against fisheries poaching.
  • $7 million over six years to eradicate pests on Secretary and Resolution Islands.
  • $3.22 million over four years for a radio communications network for fisheries compliance officers.
  • $1.5 million a year plus $60,000 start-up capital for a dedicated Pay and Employment Equity Unit in the Department of Labour.
  • $10 million a year for the NZ Film Commission
  • $380,000 a year for the NZ Film Archive
  • $12.6 million over the next three years for new memorials $600,000 a year for three years to the Music Industry Commission.
Further details post budget:
  • Additional $166 million over four years for a green package.
  • $24 million over four years to establish a digital repository at the National Library of New Zealand.


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