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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 7 Hansard (25 June) . . Page.. 2076 ..

MR MOORE: I have a supplementary question. I do not know about other members of the Assembly, but I certainly would be pleased to have the Minister come back and discuss that issue with me. I would like to clarify, Minister, that this does not apply to other petrol stations that already have leases that Woolworths might use. You would be quite comfortable about allowing Woolworths to go into an existing petrol station, I presume?

MR HUMPHRIES: Yes, if Woolworths wish to acquire an existing lease, that is fine by me - assuming that what they are putting forward is acceptable to the ACT Government and, by implication, if Mr Moore's suggestion is taken up, to the Assembly as a whole. I understand that they are not proposing in any case to take on an existing lease. They are talking about acquiring land that is not presently being used for the retailing of petrol. I should make the point, to answer the derisory laugh from that side of the chamber, that I am perfectly prepared - - -

Ms McRae: It has been dead quiet.

MR HUMPHRIES: That would be a change. I am perfectly prepared to make a decision on this matter. In fact, I am proposing to make the decision as the government of the day. I am only responding to Mr Moore's suggestion that he wishes to have the Assembly involved as well. If the Assembly wishes to be involved in the decision, that is fine. I will do as I am told by the Assembly in that respect, but otherwise the Government proposes to make the decision.

MR WOOD: My question is to the Chief Minister. In respect of the Fay Richwhite and Associates contract, do you know now, or will you come back and tell me, the cost of that contract if you have it there? As part of that contract, would you tell me whether Fay Richwhite and Associates are to receive any commission on any subsequent sale or part sale of ACTEW or any part of ACTEW?

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, when Mr Whitecross asked the first question I thought, "I am confident that we have answered these questions before, but I read an awful lot of briefs and maybe I am getting confused". In the Estimates Committee process we answered in full. Maybe I am just confused here, but I cannot believe that Mr Whitecross would have totally forgotten that he asked all of these questions - in fact, every one of them so far - in the Estimates Committee.

Mr Whitecross: I do not think so. Isn't that misleading?

Mr Humphries: She has them.

MRS CARNELL: No, I have it, and the day that we actually responded. We have given you that. Mr Whitecross asked, first of all, why there were six reviews undertaken. There were not six; there was one. He asked what the terms of reference were. It was all spelt out in the answer that he has got already, Mr Speaker. The question was asked on 26 May and - - -

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