Page 10 - Week 01 - Tuesday, 13 February 1990
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Also the bans do not affect the rolling into ACT of the fuel trains on the railway lines. However, the position with fruit and vegetables and meat is a trifle more serious and the supply situation could be verging on critical by the weekend.
However the Government will continue to monitor the situation in the ACT and will be liaising closely with the New South Wales Government and the TWU in efforts to resolve the dispute.
Executive Deputies
MR WOOD: Mr Speaker, I direct a question to the Chief Minister, who has today indicated that there is perhaps some confusion about the role of Executive Deputies, as you said, Mr Speaker, in your newspaper column the other day. I refer to comments on radio by Dr Kinloch about balloting for places in courses in secondary colleges, but I have a different theme from that. My question concerns procedures and principles, because we all need to know whether Dr Kinloch was speaking for the Government or stating his personal opinion. Specifically, what guidelines have you established for Executive Deputies in their public announcements and other activities to ensure that there is no misunderstanding in the community about Government policy?
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I can recall that within a matter of days of taking government in December, so that there would be no question in people's minds about the roles and responsibilities of Executive Deputies, I tabled in this Assembly a set of instructions and some guidelines as to the things that Executive Deputies could do legitimately for their Ministers. I think they were quite explicit. I do not think there is any doubt in anybody's mind on this side of the house about their responsibilities and their roles and I do not believe that I need to make any further explanation beyond those documents that are on the public record.
MR WOOD: I ask a supplementary question. What delegations have been made to Executive Deputies?
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I can only speak for myself. It is a matter for each individual Minister as to what - if anything - he delegates to his Executive Deputies in the legal sense of making delegations. It is my understanding that no such delegations have yet been made. Certainly, there has been none in my portfolio area.
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