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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 14 Hansard (11 December) . . Page.. 4983 ..

MS TUCKER (continuing):

I would like to thank my committee colleagues for their contributions to our work - the present members, Ms Reilly and Mrs Littlewood, and former members, Mr Hird and Ms McRae. I would again like to thank very much our secretary, Judith Henderson, who consistently has worked incredibly hard, with very good faith, under sometimes quite difficult situations.

MS TUCKER: Mr Speaker, I seek your indulgence to raise another matter.

MR SPEAKER: Yes. Proceed.

MS TUCKER: Thank you. I sought your indulgence in order to raise a question about the operation of standing orders, in particular standing order 241 which relates to reports of a committee not being divulged before a report is presented to the Assembly. This is a matter which has been of some concern to the Social Policy Committee on a couple of occasions during this Assembly. Standing order 241 is, in my view, very unclear, and I recommend that it be reviewed early in the Fourth Assembly.

MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Ms Tucker. I can but suggest that the clerks might make a note of that for the Fourth Assembly, and the relevant committee, which would be the Administration and Procedure Committee, might like to examine it.

MR HIRD: Mr Speaker, I ask for leave of the Assembly to present a statement on my recent visit to Sydney as Chairman of the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Tourism, and to have that statement incorporated in Hansard.

Leave granted.

Statement incorporated at Appendix 5.

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