Page 3187 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 11 September 1991
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Ms Follett: It has been cut up.
MR CONNOLLY: The card has not been cut up. I will advise Mr Moore. I will take that on notice and get back to him.
Members' Travel Costs
MR HUMPHRIES: My question is to the Chief Minister. With respect to the Hobart junket and particularly those people who accompanied Ms Follett and Mr Berry to that meeting, I ask: Who exactly were those people? Were they public servants or personal staff of the Ministers? Were any of those people delegates to the conference? Will the Chief Minister outline what benefit to the taxpayers of the ACT was derived from the attendance of those staff members at the ALP National Conference?
MS FOLLETT: I have been given a copy, in the course of question time, of the reply I gave to Mr Kaine to the question he asked upon notice. Some of the details that both Mr Kaine - - -
Mr Kaine: You have not answered the question I put on notice. That is why I asked you - - -
MS FOLLETT: Yes, I have. I have the answer here. I will give you the copy, Mr Kaine.
The answer to Mr Humphries' question is that the staff member who accompanied me was Mr Michael Deegan, who was a member of my personal staff at the time, a member appointed under the LA(MS) Act. Mr Berry was not accompanied by a staff member. Ms Sue Robinson was there, but she was there in a private capacity and at no cost.
Mr Humphries: No public funds?
MS FOLLETT: No public funds. She was in fact a delegate. So, there was one staff member there as a staff member. Of course, there were any number of Labor Party members there in their capacities as delegates or observers or in any other capacity. I took one staff member. I think it is fair to say that he was run off his feet in the course of that conference.
Mr Kaine: Fixing appointments with the Prime Minister, no doubt.
MS FOLLETT: Mr Deegan conducted a wide range of duties while he was in Hobart. One of those duties was to make sure that the paper flow, the day-to-day work that I am sure Mr Kaine would agree any Chief Minister is confronted with, was dealt with, if it needed to be dealt with while I was out of the ACT.
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