Page 2063 - Week 07 - Thursday, 16 June 1994
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MR HUMPHRIES: I have a supplementary question, Madam Speaker. Talking of telephone calls, I understand that the call this morning to which Mr Connolly refers resulted in the person calling asking who made appointments to the tribunal. I am advised, Minister, that one of your staff told him that it was Kate Carnell, and then hung up the telephone. Minister, given your inability to appoint people to tribunals to consider this application, will you give Mrs Carnell the opportunity to make those appointments? I understand that she will be able to make those appointments this afternoon, if given the opportunity.
MR CONNOLLY: No, Madam Speaker. I was present while that conversation was occurring. The abuse that was coming from the other end of the telephone was unusual. One often gets calls that are a little less than polite, but this was unusually so. The response was an attempt to explain to this individual that under a law that had gone through the Assembly yesterday it will be necessary for the Government, when it moves to finally appoint these people, to consult with members of the Opposition and the Independents, as I foreshadowed in my original answer.
Budget Supplementation
MS SZUTY: Madam Speaker, my question is to the Chief Minister and Treasurer, Ms Follett. On 12 May in the Assembly the Treasurer presented the following papers, and I quote from the minutes of proceedings of the Assembly, No. 106, of Thursday, 12 May 1994:
Audit Act - Variations to Appropriations made in accordance with 49(1) and 49A, together with a summary of all budget supplementation by program and category and section 7 of the Appropriation Act 1993-94 supplementation.
My question to the Treasurer is: As the totals of Attachment A, Program Supplementation - Summary, are incorrect, does she intend to table a corrected paper in the Assembly?
MS FOLLETT: I thought the question was going to be harder than that, I must admit, Madam Speaker. If the documents that I have tabled are incorrect, Madam Speaker, I am happy to review that situation and to correct them, and, indeed, to provide the Assembly with corrected documents.
MS SZUTY: I have a supplementary question, Madam Speaker. Can the Treasurer inform the Assembly whether the revised summary will conform with recommendation No. 2 of the Public Accounts Committee's report No. 3, "Monitoring of Budget Supplementation by the Legislative Assembly"; namely, that consistent presentation and terminology be used in the documentation of budget supplementation?
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