Page 3136 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 12 September 1990
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MR KAINE: Do you want me to answer the question or do you want to answer it? If you would like to answer it yourself, feel free to stand up and answer it.
Mr Berry: Well, if you have got the facts it will be all right. Have you got the facts or have you not?
MR KAINE: I think Mr Berry did indicate that he does not want me to answer the question, so he can please himself. I do not care one way or the other.
Gaming and Liquor Authority
MR STEFANIAK: My question is addressed to the Chief Minister. What will happen to the reserves held by the Gaming and Liquor Authority when it is abolished?
MR KAINE: I appreciate the fact that Mr Stefaniak is closely involved with sport and is therefore as concerned as I am to see that the sporting sector of the community is treated fairly, as all other sectors of the community will be. I understand that an amount in the order of $11m is held in reserve by the Gaming and Liquor Authority and that this relates to the TAB's activities. When that organisation becomes a corporate body later in the year, those funds will transfer, as they properly should, to the consolidated fund of the Territory so that they can be made available to fund necessary activities of the Government in the future. They will not be used this year, however. They will be taken into account in developing next year's budget.
Public Works Contractors
MR CONNOLLY: My question is directed to the Minister for Urban Services, Mr Duby. I refer, Mr Duby, to your statement to the Assembly on 14 August 1990 that the letter tabled during the debate on R and G Shelley on that day was "the standard arrangement entered into with all firms". How many letters have in fact been sent to contractors within the ACT requiring both payment of moneys to subcontractors within seven days of receipt of money from the ACT Public Works and, more importantly, audit of the head contractors on a monthly basis by ACT Public Works? Will Mr Duby table these letters requiring audit of contractors' books?
MR DUBY: Clearly, I am not in a position to answer that question off the top of my head. I shall undertake to obtain the information and provide it to Mr Connolly.
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