Page 2714 - Week 09 - Thursday, 25 August 1994
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Mr Kaine: You do not have to fill in all the time if you do not have anything to say.
MR LAMONT: I do, but I really wanted to address those matters. At page 45, in paragraph 4.129, the committee made this recommendation:
the contracting process regarding the introduction of wheeled garbage bins and the recycling service be referred to the Auditor-General for more detailed examination.
That is a matter that I welcome, as the Minister, just as I welcome the apology from a private sector employer organisation which, using the words of somebody scurrilously using the parliamentary privilege of this place, tried to besmirch me and officers of the department. They have also apologised. That is a matter which members in this Assembly should take into account, particularly if they attempt to denigrate me or officers of my department in relation to this matter outside this chamber. I warn you: Use the coward's castle because, if you say it outside, I will take you for every penny you have.
ACT Legislative Assembly
Proposed expenditure - Division 10 - ACT Legislative Assembly, $5,993,100 - agreed to.
Chief Minister's Department
Proposed expenditure - Division 20 - Government and Co-ordination, $11,936,600 - agreed to.
Proposed expenditure - Division 30 - Economic Development, $12,960,400 - agreed to.
Proposed expenditure - Division 60 - Audit Services, $1,492,400 - agreed to.
Department of Public Administration
Proposed expenditure - Division 40 - Public Administration, $20,460,200
MR KAINE (3.32): This is an interesting request for an appropriation in that this department, as I understand it, has been in place for some time but I have not seen any machinery of government gazettal that establishes it. I asked during the estimates processes how the Chief Minister could establish a new department, pay a new departmental secretary, and do all of the things that are associated with it, without a proper gazettal of the fact that a new department had been created. I did not get an answer. Before I am prepared to vote to support this particular appropriation I would like an explanation of how a new department was formed without any machinery of government gazettal of the fact that it exists.
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