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APPROPRIATION BILL 1990-91
[COGNATE PAPER:
PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE - STANDING COMMITTEE - REPORT ON NEW CAPITAL WORKS PROGRAM 1990-91]
Detail Stage
Debate resumed from 18 September 1990.
MR SPEAKER: I understand it is the wish of the Assembly to debate this order of the day concurrently with Assembly business order of the day No. 1, the report on the new capital works program for 1990-91. Is that correct? There being no objection, that course will be followed and I remind members that in debating Executive business order of the day No. 1 they may also address their remarks to Assembly business order of the day No. 1.
Standing order 180 sets down the order in which the Appropriation Bill will be considered; that is, in the detail stage, the schedule must be considered before the clauses and, unless the Assembly otherwise orders, the schedule will be considered by proposed expenditure in the order shown.
Schedule - Part II
ACT Legislative Assembly
Proposed expenditure - Division 10 - Support to the Legislative Assembly, $4,366,300 - agreed to.
Chief Minister's Department
Proposed expenditure - Division 20 - ACT Corporate Management, $18,264,800
MS FOLLETT (Leader of the Opposition) (4.11): Within this division of the Appropriation Bill a couple of issues have been raised which I do not believe the Government has adequately addressed and which I think need to be raised again at this detail stage of the Appropriation Bill. The first of these issues, of course, was raised by the Estimates Committee in the course of its deliberations on this division. It concerns the Chief Minister's failure to take responsibility for travel within program 2 - that is, the ministerial travel - for which he quite clearly must take responsibility. He has not addressed that matter; he did not address it in the debate yesterday. Perhaps he might address the matter in his comments on this part of the Appropriation Bill, because it cannot go unremarked by any government that has accountability in mind that the Estimates Committee has made, I believe, some very strong statements about this matter.
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