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As Ms Follett has mentioned, the quorum provisions are the same. They have worked well. At times, Mr Deputy Speaker, we have had difficulty getting three members to a public hearing in time for the commencement. However, we have managed to get there with some scouting around for members on occasions. The reporting date of 12 November is in line with the timeframe which we adopted last year, enabling the ACT Treasury to prepare a government response in the week before the November sittings. The committee, as it did last year, will present the report to the Speaker. However, as Ms Follett has also mentioned, a new provision in the motion relates to embargoed copies of the report being available to the press. The precedent for this was set a few weeks ago by the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee, which made its report on the Territory Plan available to the press under embargo conditions. The process worked extremely well and enabled members of the press to digest the material and consider it prior to its public release.
As Ms Follett has also mentioned, the committee is being established earlier than it was last year. This gives the members of the committee several advantages. It enables us to think about the issues we wish to raise in a thoughtful way well in advance of the formal public hearing process. It also enables us to plan more effectively the tasks we wish to undertake as a committee and to prepare for the particular programs and subprograms we wish to examine extensively. There are also advantages to government agencies, which will have more time to prepare material for the committee's scrutiny. I would like to thank the Chief Minister for agreeing to move the motion to establish the Estimates Committee at this time, and I look forward to working with the other members of the committee in undertaking this most important task.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
A.C.T. PUBLIC SERVICE - SELECT COMMITTEE
Appointment
MR DE DOMENICO (11.26): I move:
That this Assembly -
(1) noting that:
(a) the proposed establishment of a separate ACT Public Service is a most important issue of concern to the people of the ACT;
(b) the proposed establishment of a separate ACT Public Service needs to take into account the financial obligations of the Commonwealth Government; the terms and conditions of employment of current Commonwealth officers and future entitlements of current and future employees;
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