Page 172 - Week 01 - Thursday, 9 April 1992
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section 47 of the Audit Act. Health expenditure is paid from its bank account, which is funded from its own revenue and appropriations from the budget. I think that should clarify the issue.
MR KAINE: I have a supplementary question, Madam Speaker, and I would like to address it, again, to the Treasurer. The Treasurer is obliged to inform the Assembly of payments made out of the Treasurer's Advance. Despite Mr Berry's little lecture, she is obliged to inform us. When does she intend to inform us of the supplementation that has been made out of the Treasurer's Advance for Mr Berry's blow-out in Health?
MR BERRY: I have already issued the financial reports from the Board of Health which show clearly the level of supplementation.
Mr Kaine: Madam Speaker, I want an answer from the Treasurer on a matter that is clearly in the Treasurer's area of responsibility.
Ms Follett: Madam Speaker, I take a point of order. I think Mr Kaine needs leave to speak if he wishes to address the Assembly.
Mr Kaine: No; I asked a supplementary question. I asked you, and I want you to answer it. He does not control the Treasurer's Advance and the Board of Health report cannot respond to the question that I asked.
Ms Follett: Madam Speaker, Mr Kaine is totally out of order. He has asked his supplementary question. If he wants to address this chamber further, he needs leave to do so.
Mr Kaine: Will you answer the question?
MADAM SPEAKER: Ms Follett, I was going to ask Mr Kaine to desist.
MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, to avoid Mr Kaine's further angst, I will say that the details of payment from the Treasurer's Advance will be made as often as and whenever they are required to be made.
I ask that further questions be placed on the notice paper.
Narellan House
MR WOOD: I promised yesterday to respond to Mr Cornwell about a question on Narellan House and the legal measures that were being taken, or really are not being taken but may well have been. The ACT Government Solicitor has advised that the provisions concerning evictions set out in the Landlord and Tenant Act 1949 are not applicable to the accommodation arrangements in Narellan House.
The reasons why the Act is not applicable are, firstly, that section 5 of the Act provides that the Act does not bind the Crown. Next, there is no lease of the premises. The land is unleased Crown land. Further, the ACT Institute of Technical and Further Education simply has the permission of the Department of the Environment, Land and Planning, under an arrangement set out in exchanges of correspondence, to use the premises to provide low cost accommodation to students until 10 April 1992. Finally, the ACT Institute of TAFE has operated Narellan House through a management agreement with Mr Don Allan.
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