Page 4725 - Week 15 - Wednesday, 7 December 1994
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I would like to thank all colleagues on the committee for the manner in which we undertook collectively the duties of this committee in the life of this Assembly. It has been terribly important that we have been able to collaborate and come up with what I think has been a great run of 35 reports, considering all aspects and considering all the representations from the community at large during that whole process. Again, it is not so much congratulating this committee; it is congratulating the committee process we have in this Assembly on being able to do this work. It is terribly important that people understand just how valuable that process can be.
I would like to take the opportunity, as have other members, to particularly thank Rod Power. I believe that we have in the committee secretariat some of the best staff that you could ever wish for, and Rod Power is one of the leading stars in that secretariat. His ability to draw all of this sort of technical information together and to advise members of the committee accordingly is extraordinary. His sense of humour, I think, has to be noted, acknowledged and applauded. There have been times when that sense of humour has helped us grasp some of the information we have had to handle. I also would like to compliment him on his taste in croissants. I endorse this report and I extend my best wishes to all of the other members of this committee. I thank them for their collaboration and their work in the last 2½ to three years.
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and Training, Minister for the Arts and Heritage and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (4.53): Madam Speaker, I want briefly to express my congratulations and my thanks to the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee and its various members over the last three years because, as I see it - and I see the end results of the committee's deliberations - it has been a very hardworking and very responsible committee. I do not think any of its decisions have been contested by the Minister, as the committee would acknowledge. I think it does a great job. It is entirely responsible and it is independent in the sense that it makes its decisions quite properly. I hope that in the next Assembly I have such a good committee providing me with that sort of advice.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS - STANDING COMMITTEE
Report on Review of Auditor-General's Report No. 2 of 1994
MR KAINE (4.54): Madam Speaker, I present report No. 18 of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts entitled "Review of Auditor-General's Report Number 2, 1994", which deals with ACT Health, health grants and management of information technology. I move:
That the report be noted.
Madam Speaker, this Auditor-General's report dealt with two different matters entirely. The first had to do with the management of information technology. The Auditor-General concluded that, by and large, that was being handled well enough and that matters that had been referred to in an earlier report were being taken care of. The committee noted that and pursued the matter no further.
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