Page 996 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 26 July 1989
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examine and report only on matters that are referred to it by the Assembly.
The issues with which the Social Policy Committee is concerned are ones that are seen to be of importance to the community. The committee must be able to investigate these issues when it can, rather than have to wait until they are referred to it. It is a representative group of parties in the Assembly. There is now a membership of five, one from each party represented in the Assembly.
Mr Speaker, what I am proposing in this motion is already in place in another of the Assembly's committees - that is, the Standing Committee on Conservation, Heritage and Environment - and I would like to remind the house that it was the Liberal Party that put forward the terms of reference of that committee. I think really that is probably all I would like to say in relation to that motion at this point, and I would commend the motion to the Assembly.
MR JENSEN (4.31): Mr Speaker, I will speak very briefly on this matter and indicate that the Residents Rally will be supporting this motion that has been put forward by the Liberals in relation to this issue. I think it is important that this matter be clearly identified and that there be no doubt as to what these committees are able to do in relation to the way they can operate. I take Mrs Nolan's point in relation to the heritage committee. As I have suggested in the past, it probably would have been appropriate at the beginning, when all these committees were being set up, to have had a little more time to discuss it in a consensus operation, and we may have in fact got to a stage where we may not have needed this motion.
I foreshadow, Mr Speaker, that at some stage the Rally will also be moving a similar motion in relation to the Planning, Infrastructure and Development Committee. I think it is important that these sorts of issues be the province of the committees, however, at the guidance and direction of the house, as we see in this case.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Debate resumed.
MR COLLAERY (4.32): Mr Speaker, I was concluding my remarks when the time fixed for private members' business expired, I believe, and I so conclude.
MR SPEAKER: I might add, your time had expired.
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