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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 2 Hansard (27 February) . . Page.. 346 ..

MRS CARNELL (continuing):

I give an undertaking that as soon as this information is available I will be happy to give it to the Assembly. I am happy to give to the Assembly any information we currently have with regard to this question and answer it in full when all of the information is available. There is nothing to hide here. It is simply an issue of 200-plus bans in place that, quite honestly, I can do little about. Possibly those opposite might like to get the bans lifted so that I can answer the question.

Motion (by Mr Kaine) agreed to:

That the question be now put.

Original question put:

That the motion (Ms Follett's) be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 9	 	NOES, 6

Mr Berry	Mrs Carnell
Ms Follett	Mr Cornwell
Ms Horodny	Mr De Domenico
Ms McRae	Mr Hird
Mr Moore	Mr Humphries
Mr Osborne	Mr Kaine
Ms Tucker
Mr Whitecross
Mr Wood

Ms McRae: Mr Speaker, on a point of order: I would like to withdraw my comment that Mrs Carnell was misleading, which I made while the bells were ringing. I would like to restate the point, though, that she is likely to have been misled about the collation of information. I say that purely and simply on the basis that today I received an answer from Mr Stefaniak, which is a long and complicated answer about Housing Trust properties, all neatly collated. What I meant by my comment was that I think Mrs Carnell had better check back with her people because, clearly, some information is being collected.

Mr Humphries: Mr Speaker, can I point out to the house that different departments are operating on entirely different bans from others and on different computer systems. Some departments are very good at getting information to their Ministers; others are not.

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