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POISONS (AMENDMENT) BILL 1992
Debate resumed from 17 December 1992, on motion by Mr Berry:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
DRUGS OF DEPENDENCE (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 5) 1992
Debate resumed from 17 December 1992, on motion by Mr Berry:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
Sitting suspended from 12.02 to 2.30 pm
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Police Budget
MR KAINE: I direct a question to Mr Connolly as the Minister for police. I note from the media that the blow-out in the police budget is alleged to be around $800,000 and that the Commonwealth has agreed to pick up about half of that on the basis that it relates to the visit of a Turkish Minister and to the Winchester inquiry. Can the Minister tell me what the cause of the other $400,000 overrun in his budget is?
MR CONNOLLY: The question is premised on some inaccurate information, so I had better clear that up first. The situation is that the police, on projections, were looking at overexpending their budget by a sum of some $800,000. About half of that was as a result of two very clearly identifiable factors which, in our view, no manager could have predicted. They were the fact that the Winchester inquiry, at some time in November, became a ledger item charged to ACT region policing whereas it had previously been charged to Commonwealth policing. In the couple of years since we assumed responsibility for the police, the expenditure on that inquiry, which would have amounted to some millions of dollars, has not been charged to the ACT.
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