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kept but, I think it should be pointed out, were negligible. In other words, there was hardly any recycling of those items.

It is estimated that there were approximately 2,500 individual visits to the transfer station per week, and monitoring by my department indicates that approximately 24 trips per week were required to deliver waste to the Belconnen tip.

PAPER

MR DUBY: Pursuant to section 20(1) of the Noise Control Act 1988, I table for the information of members the following paper:

Noise Control Act - Noise Control Manual, dated February 1990.

PRIVILEGE

MR SPEAKER: Yesterday Mr Jensen gave written notice of a possible breach of privilege concerning the possible disclosure by a member of the Standing Committee on Conservation, Heritage and Environment, Mr Moore, of the proceedings of a meeting that the committee conducted on Thursday, 26 April. The incident referred to was a radio interview given on Friday, 27 April, by Mr Moore. Mr Jensen attached a transcript of part of the interview to his letter.

Under the provisions of standing order 71 I must determine whether or not the matter merits precedence over other business. If, in my opinion, the matter does merit precedence, I must inform the Assembly of the decision, and the member who raised the matter may then move a motion without notice forthwith to refer the matter to the Standing Committee on Administration and Procedures. Assembly standing order No. 241 provides:

The evidence taken by any committee and documents presented to and proceedings and reports of the committee shall be strictly confidential and shall not be published or divulged by any member of the committee or by any other person, until the report of the committee has been presented to the Assembly: Provided always that the publication or divulging of any evidence, documents, proceedings or report confidentially to any person or persons by the committee or by any member of the committee for the execution of any clerical work or printing, or to the Speaker, a Member, or, if it be necessary, in the course of their duties, to the Clerk or other officers of the Assembly, shall


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