Page 1406 - Week 05 - Wednesday, 11 May 1994
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Ms Follett: You have not met yet.
MR KAINE: I know; that is what is worrying me. As long as the Government and the Assembly are aware that the select committee will need adequate time to examine the two Bills that will now be referred to it, I, as the committee chairman, have no difficulty with that and neither does the Opposition.
MRS CARNELL (Leader of the Opposition) (12.27): I support Mr Lamont's motion to refer this Bill to a committee. I think it is an appropriate way to go. However, I urge members of that committee to look at the Bills in great detail and understand that the whole purpose of whistleblower legislation is to protect the person who wants to disclose, not the system.
MR HUMPHRIES (12.28): Madam Speaker, I note the interjection that Mr Kaine's committee has not met yet. I think it is worth responding that not all of the legislation that his committee is meant to deal with is on the table yet. The Government is still to table the consequential provisions Bill, and when that happens I am sure - - -
Mr Lamont: That is why it is not being brought on next Tuesday.
MR HUMPHRIES: I am sure that that is why Mr Kaine's committee has not met, Mr Lamont.
Mr De Domenico: Stop disabusing Mr Lamont.
MR HUMPHRIES: Educating Mr Lamont is a very difficult task. For better or worse, Madam Speaker, those are the facts.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Sitting suspended from 12.30 to 2.30 pm
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
ACTTAB - Link with VicTAB
MS SZUTY: My question without notice is to the Chief Minister, Ms Follett. Is it true that you knew about the severance of the link between ACTTAB and VicTAB prior to the February and March sittings of the Assembly and well in advance of the public announcement made by the then Minister for Sport, Mr Berry, on 15 March, which was when Assembly members were first informed?
MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, I ask for your guidance on whether this question would be considered out of order by virtue of being the subject of an inquiry.
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