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SCRUTINY OF BILLS AND SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Reports and Statement
MRS GRASSBY: Madam Speaker, I present reports Nos 19 and 20 of 1993 of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation. I ask for leave to make a brief statement on the report.
Leave granted.
MRS GRASSBY: Report No. 19 of 1993, which I have just presented, was circulated on 27 October 1993, when the Assembly was not sitting, pursuant to the resolution of appointment of 27 March 1992. Report No. 20 of 1993 contains the committee's comments on eight pieces of subordinate legislation and four Government responses. I commend the reports to the Assembly.
ESTIMATES - SELECT COMMITTEE
Report on the Appropriation Bill 1993-94
MS SZUTY (8.13): Madam Speaker, I ask for leave to present the report by the Select Committee on Estimates 1993-94 and to move a motion in relation to the report.
Leave granted.
MS SZUTY: Pursuant to order, I present the report by the Select Committee on Estimates 1993-94, together with a copy of the minutes of proceedings. This report was provided to the Deputy Speaker, in the absence of the Speaker, for circulation on Friday, 12 November 1993, pursuant to the resolution of appointment. I move:
That the report be noted.
Madam Speaker, the report of the Select Committee on Estimates on the Appropriation Bill 1993-94 has much to recommend it. It represents the work of 11 non-Executive members of this Assembly who have worked diligently over five months, but especially over the last two months, to produce a substantive and constructive report on the Government's budget and government and bureaucratic activity over the last 12 months and in anticipation of the next few years.
Madam Speaker, I can attest to the fact that it is no easy task to achieve a consensus report from so many committee members of differing political persuasions, but it has been achieved and I believe that the report is the stronger for it. The process for compiling the report has drawn on the experience of last year's Estimates Committee, when individual members submitted material for consideration, but has been further refined. Almost every member of this year's committee has had direct input into the report, which I believe is the stronger for that input.
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