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PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE -
STANDING COMMITTEE
1992-93 New Capital Works Program
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (10.41): Madam Speaker, I move:
That:
(1) the proposed 1992-93 New Capital Works Program be referred to the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure for inquiry and report by the first sitting day of the Budget Sittings;
(2) if the Assembly is not sitting when the Committee has completed its inquiry the Committee may send its report to the Speaker or, in the absence of the Speaker, to the Deputy Speaker, who is authorised to give directions for its printing and circulation; and
(3) the foregoing provisions of this resolution have effect notwithstanding anything contained in the standing orders.
Madam Speaker, this motion is that the proposed 1992-93 new capital works program be referred to the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure for inquiry and report by early August 1992. It also has other provisions to allow the committee to report should the Assembly not be in session.
A number of capital works projects for 1992-93 have been brought forward as part of the accelerated capital works program for 1991-92 to reduce the effect of the national recession on the ACT economy. The Government is currently in the process of developing the new capital works program for 1992-93. It is necessary for the capital works program to be referred to the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Standing Committee and for that committee to report to this Assembly by early August 1992 so that the program can be included in the budget session.
This motion reflects what has been the practice in dealing with the new capital works program and I believe that it is an excellent practice to give the committee the opportunity to review and report. I commend the motion to the Assembly.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
ADMINISTRATION AND PROCEDURES - STANDING COMMITTEE
Report on Standing Orders 79 and 153
Debate resumed from 13 May 1992, on motion by Mr Lamont:
That the report be noted.
MR CORNWELL (10.43): May I say at the beginning of this debate, and this refers to the next item as much as the item before us, that when I adjourned the debate on these two matters last week there was a grumble from the other side of the chamber that rather inferred, I thought, that we should be accepting these
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