Page 952 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 19 April 1994
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(5) if the Assembly is not sitting when the Committee has completed its inquiry, the Committee may send its report to the Speaker or, in the absence of the Speaker, to the Deputy Speaker who is authorised to give directions for its printing and circulation;
(6) the Committee is authorised to release copies of its report, prior to the Speaker or Deputy Speaker authorising its printing and circulation and pursuant to embargo conditions and to persons to be determined by the Committee; and
(7) the foregoing provisions of this resolution have effect notwithstanding anything contained in the standing orders.
The terms of reference for this committee are the same as for last year's Estimates Committee. I remind members that there is an early budget this year. That will impose a very tight timetable on the Estimates Committee and, of course, on the Government's response as well. I do not propose to speak any further on the motion, except to say that there has been some consultation on it at least with the former chair of the Estimates Committee. I commend the motion to the Assembly.
Mr Humphries: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. There appears to be a misprint in my copy of the motion. The copy I have does not show the Government appointing a chairman of this committee. Could I have the revised version which does show that, Madam Speaker?
MADAM SPEAKER: There is no point of order.
MS SZUTY (4.54): I wish to speak to this matter, very briefly.
Mr Kaine: You are going to nominate for the chairmanship, are you?
MS SZUTY: No, I am not, Mr Kaine. As the Chief Minister has indicated, we need to establish the Estimates Committee fairly shortly because of the early budget process this year. The major task, as I see it, is for the committee to come together and to then be briefed by ACT Treasury as to the information we will have available to us to assist us in our task this year, which may be very different from the information that we had in previous years.
I would like to draw attention to the short timeframe within which members must give their nominations for the committee to the Speaker. I think nominations are due, from memory, at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Further details of the motion, as Ms Follett has said, are in line with the motion to establish the committee which was moved by her last year and agreed to by the Assembly. Members will also note that revenue estimates will form part of this year's process, as they did last year.
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