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Amendment agreed to.
Clause, as amended, agreed to.
Clauses 8 to 12, by leave, taken together, and agreed to.
Clause 13 (Saving)
Motion (by Mr Berry) agreed to:
Page 6, line 17, omit "and Projects".
Clause, as amended, agreed to.
Remainder of Bill, by leave, taken as a whole, and agreed to.
Bill, as amended, agreed to.
Sitting suspended from 12.04 to 2.30 pm
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Ainslie Transfer Station
MS FOLLETT: My question is to the Chief Minister. Was the Chief Minister consulted on the closure of the Ainslie Transfer Station? As Minister responsible for the environment, did he undertake any assessment of the environmental impact of the closure? If so, how was it that he overlooked the obvious environmental concerns?
MR KAINE: Yes, Mr Speaker, I was well aware that the Minister for Finance and Urban Services, as a consequence of the necessity to reduce government expenditures, had proposed not to renew the contract under which the transfer depot at Ainslie would have been operated. I understand also that, while it was the wish of the Government not to renew this contract, it was not at all of concern to the contractor that this be done.
I do not accept the proposition from the Leader of the Opposition that there was an adverse environmental impact. There are two public depots in the Territory to which everybody else in Canberra delivers any rubbish that the normal collection does not take care of. One is in Holt and one is in Long Gully. If you do not happen to live in Ainslie, you put your rubbish, if you have any that does not get shifted by the normal disposal system, in your car or your trailer and you deliver it out there. I do not accept that asking the residents of Ainslie to do the same thing puts them at any disadvantage and that they are therefore in any different position from people who live anywhere else in the Territory.
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