Page 218 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 30 May 1989
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like to take them on notice to give them some consideration and respond to them at a later time, because I have not considered those aspects of the issues that he raised.
COACH TRANSPORT
MRS NOLAN: I direct a question to the Minister for Housing and Urban Services. Given that the New South Wales Government does not allow ACT charter operators to work out of New South Wales, why does the ACT allow New South Wales charter and tour operators to work out of the ACT, taking away both employment and revenue from those ACT coach businesses that are unable to compete with the large New South Wales companies which are subsidised by large school runs?
MRS GRASSBY: I think this question should be directed to the Minister for Tourism. I will take the question on notice, because I am afraid I am not sure about the situation.
MRS NOLAN: I am sorry, but I think it would come under the area of transport.
MRS GRASSBY: I will have to take it on notice and get back to the member.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
MR DUBY: My question is directed to the Chief Minister. I refer to an article in the "Canberra Times" of Friday, 26 May, which reported that under her administration 50 per cent of new appointments to government boards and committees, regardless of merit, would be women. Is this so? If so, does she and her Government adhere to the concept of promotion on merit and merit alone in public service matters?
MS FOLLETT: I thank the member for the question, and I am very happy to respond to it. First of all, I would like to lay to rest any suggestion that my statement on the appointment of women to boards and committees had in any way an impact on the promotion on merit in the ACT Administration. They are two quite separate issues, and I am happy to make that quite clear. The ACT Administration will continue to select and promote in the way that it has done, based purely on merit.
But what we are talking about here is the membership of boards and committees that are based on a range of factors, one of which, of course, is the representation of community views. They are not, for the most part, expert bodies. There are some 117 of them, I believe, so they encompass a very broad range of issues of significance in the ACT.
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