Page 3601 - Week 14 - Tuesday, 8 December 1992
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PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Report on Draft Variations to the Territory Plan
MR LAMONT: I present report No. 8 of 1992 of the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure on the following draft variations to the Territory Plan: Gungahlin (Harcourt Hill) joint venture development; Griffith, section 84, blocks 4, 5, 6 and 7; West Belconnen; and Braddon, sections 22, blocks 6, 7, 8 and 9, together with a copy of the extracts of the minutes of proceedings. This report was provided to the Speaker for circulation on Friday, 4 December 1992, pursuant to the resolution of appointment.
MS SZUTY: I ask for leave of the Assembly to present a dissenting report to report No. 8 of the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure and to move a motion in relation to the dissenting report.
Leave granted.
MS SZUTY: I present a dissenting report to report No. 8 of the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure and move:
That the dissenting report be added to Report No. 8 of the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure.
I wish to speak to this matter briefly. I wish to refer to the manner in which report No. 8 of the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure was tabled by the presiding member, Mr Lamont, with the Speaker on the afternoon of Friday, 4 December 1992. Mr Lamont was aware, indeed the recommendations of the report note, that "Ms Szuty will table a dissenting report in relation to this draft Variation". At the most, I was given 15 minutes to prepare my dissenting report, if it was to be tabled with the Speaker on Friday afternoon and incorporated into the committee's report at that time.
I believe it to be quite extraordinary that this has occurred and I have had to seek the leave of this Assembly today to move that my dissenting report be included with the majority report of the committee to be printed and circulated from this time. I believe that Mr Lamont's actions set an unfortunate precedent for this Assembly, and I trust that they will not recur in the future.
MR LAMONT (4.22): Madam Speaker, I give notice that I shall shortly seek leave to move that the report be noted. Firstly, I will speak briefly to the comments made by Ms Szuty. I find what has transpired in this Assembly to be nothing short of a breach of confidence, and indeed cooperation, between members of the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee - excluding Ms Szuty - and Ms Szuty. There was considerable debate to ensure that the rights of Ms Szuty were taken account of in relation to views which she had expressed in the committee and prior to the committee meeting - on the same day, the day before, the day before, and so on.
I find it somewhat strange and little short of political grandstanding for Ms Szuty to come in here this afternoon, with a tear in the eye, and suggest that she has been hardly done by by the actions of the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee in the way that they determined, cooperatively, and with the agreement of Ms Szuty, to proceed in relation to this matter. It is that last question that causes me to rise to speak specifically on this motion.
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