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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 1 Hansard (22 February) . . Page.. 185 ..

MR WOOD: I ask a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. I think the Chief Minister has been stumbling around here. She said, "This is enterprise bargaining". Is the Chief Minister aware that under the current Commonwealth enterprise bargaining agreements that she has been talking about a lot in this Assembly there are no involuntary reductions? Does she intend to follow what she said yesterday that she was going to follow, or not?

MRS CARNELL: The triple R award provides for involuntary retirement, but only after all redeployment and voluntary processes have failed.

Mr Wood: What about the Commonwealth enterprise bargaining that you were quoting yesterday?

MRS CARNELL: We are willing to offer an extra one per cent pay increase for every ACT Government employee, whether they be teachers or others - - -

Mr Wood: No. That is just a repetition of what you said a minute ago.

Mr Hird: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. I would like to draw your attention to standing order 39 in respect of our colleague opposite, Mr Wood.

Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, I would like to draw your attention to standing order 207. The Chief Minister is under pressure. You may wish to close the house.

Mr Hird: You may wish to deal with him, Mr Speaker.

MR SPEAKER: I may have to do exactly that. Continue, Chief Minister.

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, I am very willing to talk about the Australian Public Service in this area, because the fact is that we are willing to go substantially further than what has happened in the APS. We are willing to negotiate with the unions on a set of protocols on the use of involuntary provisions. In fact, we provided those protocols last week. Not only are we looking at the triple R award, but we are looking at a set of protocols on how that would be implemented - an agreed set of protocols, hopefully, if we can agree on anything. That is a substantial step past the triple R award which is available in the Australian Public Service.

Mr Wood: Mr Speaker, I table the document I was referring to.

MR SPEAKER: You will have to get leave to do that.

Mr Wood: I am sure I will get that, Mr Speaker.

Leave granted.

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