Page 2711 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 21 November 1989
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repeat two - international standard hotels on section 19? If this is not the case, does this not suggest that one would have to express some concern about the credibility of the pamphlet that I have passed across to the Minister?
MR WHALAN: I have not had a chance to read this pamphlet because, as Mr Jensen well knows, Ministers take very seriously the period of question time and have a commitment to pay attention to questions when they are asked about themselves as individual Ministers and also about other Ministers. I have had a look at the front of the pamphlet and have studied some of the list of organisations that have authorised the pamphlet. After I have had an opportunity to look at it, I will be quite happy to answer any questions from Mr Jensen in relation to the matter. Again, I wish to emphasise that it is quite clear that the Government is not in any way involved in the organisations that authorised it.
Business Regulation Review Unit
MR KAINE: I would like to address another question to the Chief Minister. I refer back to an announcement by the Chief Minister on 21 August that she was going to implement Liberal Party policy by the creation of a business regulation review board which, in the Chief Minister's own words, would streamline government procedures, paperwork and reporting requirements as they impact upon business. Can the Chief Minister tell us what steps have been taken so far in the last 12 weeks to achieve these aims and, if nothing has yet been done, when we might see some streamlining in the bureaucratic processes associated with this excellent policy initiative?
MS FOLLETT: This is a question that I have answered before, I believe, Mr Speaker. My answer on a previous occasion was that it is a business regulation review unit which has been set up within my own portfolio. At the moment it consists of two public service officers whose task is to review and monitor regulations and to advise where those regulations may be or whether they run the risk of stifling business. So far as I am aware, it is a normal part of the ACT Government Administration and is operating as such.
MR KAINE: I ask a supplementary question. Can I assume from the Chief Minister's answer that her own review unit which she so describes has in fact done nothing in the last 12 weeks?
MS FOLLETT: I find that an extraordinary question, Mr Speaker. It is the same question again. I have two public service officers working within the ACT Government Administration to monitor regulations and to advise where existing regulations are stifling enterprise or where there is a danger that new regulations may stifle enterprise. Mr
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