Page 1343 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 10 May 1994
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What will happen, Mr Cornwell, you can rest assured, is that that assessment process, following a Cabinet decision last year to seek tenders for a new garbage collection and recycling system in the ACT, will be allowed to follow its course. I, as Minister, am not prepared to intervene in that process until such time as full consideration - properly given by officers of my department, without my involvement - has been given. I also suggest to you, Mr Cornwell, that before you enter this place trying to cast aspersions on the officers of my department charged with assessing these tenders you get your facts right. The innuendo contained in your question is of some concern to me, because it implies that there has been something untoward or improper on the part of officers of my department in assessing that process. Mr Cornwell, this is an opportunity for you to put up or shut up.
MR CORNWELL: I ask a supplementary question, Madam Speaker. Mr Lamont, the Minister, seems to have missed part of the question. I ask: Has the prospective tenderer been requested to provide an agreement from the Transport Workers Union before its tender is considered? Yes or no? You seemed to be fairly good at answering yes, no and maybe earlier today. Let us hear it on this one.
MR LAMONT: I will start again. If you want another haranguing about the way in which, quite properly, we conduct our business, I will give it to you. Cabinet announced a process. That process is undertaken by officers of my department without ministerial intervention. That is a proper process. That proper process will be allowed to run its course until such time as the decision is made and the recommendation is forwarded to me. At that stage, Mr Cornwell, I will become involved in the process.
Ms Follett: Madam Speaker, I ask that further questions be placed on the notice paper.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, on 19 April Mr Stevenson asked me a question regarding policies for dealing with companies or individuals external to the Government Service; and Mr Kaine asked me a question, again on 19 April, about the provision of additional funding to the Council on the Ageing. I have provided answers to both of the members this morning, Madam Speaker. I ask for leave to present the answers and to have them incorporated in Hansard.
Leave granted.
Documents incorporated at Appendix 1.
PAPER
MADAM SPEAKER: For the information of members, I present a report from Mr Moore, MLA, on his study trip to Perth, which he undertook on 16 and 17 April.
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