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MR SPEAKER: Have you concluded, Mr Collaery?
MR COLLAERY: I will just talk for a little while. Mr Speaker, recommendation 15 of the new capital works program, which came from the committee that I chaired, was that the details of the new works program should be made available to the committee in May each year. We would like to hear whether the Government is going to commit itself to that. Also we recommended that the Government, in consultation with the committee, should develop procedures to enable detailed examination of particular capital works.
Members will recall that the committee examining the new capital works program was unable to look in detail at just about everything due to the time-critical nature of some projects and due to the short time available to the committee. In fact, the new capital works program as indicated by the report of the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure, a report brought down in August, was really an overview and the more important aspect of the committee's recommendations is just this very recommendation - that it does not happen again.
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister) (11.31): Mr Speaker, the Government accepts the spirit of those two recommendations made on the capital works program and we will certainly be consulting with the committee on the question of timing and on the arrangements for making sure that the scrutiny of major projects is adequate in the forthcoming years.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
INTEGRATED TRANSPORT STRATEGY
Ministerial Statement and Papers
Debate resumed from 26 October 1989, on motion by Ms Follett:
That the Assembly takes note of the following papers:
Integrated transport strategy - Ministerial statement, 26 October 1989.
Transport ACT - Consultation paper, October 1989.
MRS NOLAN (11.32): The ACT Labor Government claims it is committed to the implementation of an integrated transport strategy for the ACT. This commitment is not readily apparent in the recently released consultation paper, Transport ACT. The paper is neither a strategy nor integrated, as the Canberra Times editorial stated on 28 October. Transport ACT is supposedly offered as a component of the total transport strategy which will be addressed in the Territory plan.
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