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ACT Treasury
Proposed expenditure - Division 60 - ACT Financial Management, $85,528,000
MR MOORE (4.34): Mr Speaker, I think this is probably an appropriate time to comment on the preparation of the budget documents and the documents that we had before the Estimates Committee, and on the assistance that we were given by Treasury in the Estimates Committee, which was always forthright and was greatly appreciated. I certainly perceive - and I think many members of the Estimates Committee would agree - that in lots of ways there were improvements in the budget documentation from last year.
We accepted that the budget documentation is going through a transition phase as we become established. I think it is an appropriate time to state that, in spite of what some people may have perceived as hard questioning or constant questioning to ensure that we understood what was going on - and we are all going through quite a learning process with the budget process and, in fact, with the whole self-government issue - we have appreciated that.
MR JENSEN (4.35): Mr Speaker, as chairman of the Estimates Committee, very briefly I would like to endorse the comments made by Mr Moore in relation to the support provided to us by Treasury officials.
Proposed expenditure agreed to.
Department of the Environment, Land and Planning
Proposed expenditure - Division 70 - Territory planning, $4,603,500
MR CONNOLLY (4.36): Mr Speaker, I was not a member of this place at this time last year; but I have gone back to Hansard, and the thing that is very striking, looking at Hansard of this time last year, is the number of times we see the now Deputy Chief Minister, Mr Collaery, thundering about the alleged failure of the Follett Government to have in place the full planning legislation package in its six months of government starting from scratch. Indeed, this dreadful failure of the Follett Government to have the planning legislation in place after six months in government starting from scratch was one of the reasons cited, just under 12 months ago, for bringing that Government down.
It is fascinating to learn, through the Estimates Committee this year, that that planning legislation is still slowly grinding its way through the system and that, from evidence given to the Estimates Committee, we will be lucky to see it in place by the middle of next year. Certainly no money has been allocated in the current budget - this budget taking us to 30 June 1991 - for any increased Administrative Appeals Tribunal work arising from the
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