State treasurer Daniel Mookhey says ‘difficult to avoid’ costs include extending funding for 1,112 temporary nurses
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The Minns government says it has uncovered more than $7.1bn in fresh “financial pressures” since taking office last month, and will delay the New South Wales budget three months until September while it conducts a “line-by-line” spending review.
Additional “difficult to avoid” costs include whether to extend funding for 1,112 temporary nurse roles that were only budgeted for two years to cover surge capacity estimates, the state treasurer, Daniel Mookhey, said.