Page 4792 - Week 15 - Thursday, 8 December 1994

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MR MOORE (11.56): I would like to make one very quick comment in response, Madam Speaker. I hope that Mr Howe will see the error of his ways and that a new and more appropriate appointment will be made.

Amendments agreed to.

Bill, as a whole, as amended, agreed to.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.

  Sitting suspended from 11.57 am to 2.30 pm

  QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

  Group Apprenticeship Schemes

MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, I want to amend part of the answer I gave yesterday in relation to funding provided by governments to the MBA. I wish to say that the bulk of funds provided to the MBA are provided by employers, with the ACT Government and DEET - the Department of Employment, Education and Training - providing some $348,000, which is for administrative processes and for special projects.

Assembly Members - Mobile Telephones

MR STEVENSON: Madam Speaker, my question is to you. In March last year I asked you a question. I wore a kilt into the Assembly at the time. The question was about mobile phones. I said that you had sent us a letter that said that five new mobile phones were available, making a total of eight, and that it had been decided by the Administration and Procedures Committee to give them to the female members of the Assembly. As you will recall, at the time I said:

Would you agree that the basis for the allocation of all public resources ... should be merit and need, not ... whether or not someone wears trousers?

You took the question on notice at the time and I notice that you have not answered it yet. I could not let the Assembly wrap up for the year, or for the term, without giving you an opportunity to do so.

MADAM SPEAKER: It is my recollection that an answer was forwarded to you but - - -

Mr Stevenson: We have checked thoroughly and you did not give me an answer.


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