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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 1 Hansard (20 February) . . Page.. 216 ..

MR MOORE: I move:

That:

(1) if the Assembly is not sitting when the Standing Committee on Planning and Environment has completed its inquiry into the Government's 1997-98 Draft Capital Works Program, the Committee may send its Report to the Speaker or, in the absence of the Speaker, to the Deputy Speaker, who is authorised to give directions for its printing, circulation and publication; and

(2) the foregoing provisions of this resolution have effect notwithstanding anything contained in the Standing Orders.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Sitting suspended from 12.43 to 2.30 pm

MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS

MRS CARNELL (Chief Minister): Mr Speaker, I alert the Assembly to the fact that Mr Stefaniak will not be here for question time today as he is at a Housing Ministers conference. I will answer any questions which would normally be addressed to him.

QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Gungahlin - Licensed Club and Enclosed Oval

MR WHITECROSS: Mr Speaker, my question is to Mr Humphries, the Minister for Planning. Minister, I refer you to the comments made by Anne McGrath, the chief executive of the Gungahlin Development Authority, to the Gungahlin Community Council that an enclosed oval was not viable for Gungahlin at this time. Can you explain why expressions of interest were called by the Gungahlin Development Authority for the development of a licensed club and an enclosed oval without a proper evaluation being conducted beforehand to identify that there was sufficient demand for an enclosed oval?

MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I do not recall recently having read those comments of Ms McGrath's, but I do not think she was saying that there was no demand for an oval. Unless Mr Whitecross repeats what she said - I do not have a copy of what she said in front of me, but I think she was saying that the question of whether the requirement for an oval ultimately there could be satisfied at this point was a question that needed to be resolved. It would have seemed to me that the calling of tenders was the best way of resolving that issue. If there is a capacity to provide the oval within reasonable terms, then presumably the calling of tenders would indicate whether or not that was the case.

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