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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 7 Hansard (1 July) . . Page.. 2070 ..

Mr Moore: That is reflecting on the vote of the Assembly.

MR QUINLAN: No, it is not. I have really got some reservations about passing a Bill - - -

Ms Carnell: But you are not going to support the budget at all.

MR QUINLAN: There are two damn Bills. I have one Bill here that says, "We are going to fix up the past". I do not know what that means legally, and I want to know before I sign on to it. I want to know what it implies, what it - - -

Ms Carnell: But you are not going to sign on to it; you are going to oppose it.

MR QUINLAN: Yes. But I want to know why we have two Bills for the same money. Why do we have two Bills for the same money?

Mr Moore: But you are not going to sign on to it anyway. You have already rejected it.

MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Mr Moore, please! Mr Quinlan has the call and we do not want to have to do CPR.

MR QUINLAN: It is an interactive thing, Mr Temporary Deputy Speaker. So, before I would want to put my hand in the air to say that I approve these appropriations, I would want to know - I demand to know - why we have a Bill and why we have an amendment to another Bill to cover the same money. Does that not strike you as odd? Is it not a little bit odd that we are legislating the same money twice? Might we spend double the money?

Ms Carnell: No.

MR QUINLAN: Why not?

Ms Carnell: Because that is what they wanted us to do and it is what their legal opinion wanted us to do.

MR QUINLAN: The amendment to the Appropriation Bill, from what I see, gives you open slather to spend any amount of money again. You can spend that amount again.

Ms Carnell: No.

MR QUINLAN: Explain to me why not. All you are doing is amending this year's Appropriation Bill by $27,383,241. Legally, from that point on you could spend that money again. You have got a Bill here that fixes up the retrospective stuff. If there is some deep, meaningful legal or technical reason, I would want to know and I would want to know in detail and then I would consider it.

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