Page 403 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 2 March 1994
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MR BERRY: What we have is an agreement that has been well checked by Treasury and the Law Office, and they have approved it.
Mrs Carnell: Give us the papers.
Mr De Domenico: Let us have a look at their advice.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
MR BERRY: They have approved it. What bugs you lot is that it is a good deal, we are making some money out of it and the Territory - - -
Mrs Carnell: How do we know?
Mr De Domenico: Minister, it is a shonky deal.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
MR BERRY: You do not know. Why criticise it? Who behind you is providing you with dodgy information or no information?
Mrs Carnell: They are mostly your members.
Mr De Domenico: They are a different faction from you.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
Mrs Carnell: They are his friends.
Mr De Domenico: It is a shonky deal, Minister.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Mr De Domenico, I asked you to cease interjecting.
MR BERRY: The fact of the matter is that there has been a deal struck and it has been cleared by the appropriate parts of government. Advice was given to me on the basis of an assessment of the contract by relevant officers throughout the department and it was recommended that I deal with it.
Mr Humphries: Let us see it.
Mr De Domenico: Give us a look at the advice.
Ms Follett: He has tabled it.
Mr Humphries: No, the contract.
MR BERRY: The advice has been tabled.
MR WESTENDE: I ask a supplementary question. Mr Minister, can you advise the chamber what were the set-up costs? You just mentioned that you get half a million dollars? What were the set-up costs from ACTTAB and the ACTTAB-VITAB contract? In relation to the deal, what other expressions of interest or proposals from other investors were considered?
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