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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 10 Hansard (25 September) . . Page.. 3273 ..

MR MOORE (continuing):

drawing these issues to the attention of the members of the committee and the committee in turn drawing them to the attention of the Assembly that has made for far better legislation in our community than we would have had had we not had Professor Whalan to assist us.

I have enjoyed meeting Professor Whalan at various functions and certainly agree with my colleague Mr Osborne and others about Professor Whalan's sense of humour, which always came to the fore. Like other members of the Assembly, I wish him well in his retirement and wish him good health.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

MR WHITECROSS (11.04): I ask for leave to amend my motion as circulated, by inserting words before "before 4 November 1997" - rather than after.

Leave granted.

MR WHITECROSS: Mr Speaker, I move:

That:

(1) if the Assembly is not sitting and the Standing Committee on Public Accounts completes its inquiry into any Auditor-General's report and/or any matter referred to it by the Assembly and the Committee's report on its inquiry into the lease/leaseback of the Magistrates Court Building and the Dame Patti Menzies Building before 4 November 1997, 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.

This motion seeks the Assembly's agreement to the Speaker authorising the printing, circulation and publishing of any report completed by the Standing Committee on Public Accounts on its current inquiries if the report is completed before the Assembly sits again. The Public Accounts Committee has a number of inquiries before it, many of which are nearing completion but were not completed prior to this sitting, due to the circumstances of some members of the committee. In the interests of serving members of the Assembly, and given the long break until the Assembly sits again, I believe it would be appropriate when we have completed reports to have them printed, circulated and published, subject to the Speaker's authorisation. I seek the support of the Assembly for this motion.

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