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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 7 Hansard (2 July) . . Page.. 2124 ..
MR HIRD (continuing):
It is a sign of a responsible public housing management program - and a socially responsible government - that periodic reviews of housing eligibility are carried out in the ACT to ensure that those whose personal circumstances improve have less opportunity for exploiting the system to the detriment of those most in need.
Mr Speaker ... for these reasons I have submitted a separate dissenting report.
MR RUGENDYKE (12.28): I rise simply to congratulate Mr Corbell on his chairmanship of this year's Estimates Committee hearings. He performed a difficult job in a very professional and even-handed way. I congratulate Mr Corbell on his ability to reach a unanimous report with the crossbenches, even though some of us have differing philosophical views.
MR QUINLAN (12.29): I echo the words of Mr Rugendyke. I thought that Mr Corbell - in fact, I thought the committee in its entirety, and I include myself - did an exemplary job in a fairly brief timeframe. Some of the hearings were protracted because of the difficulty in obtaining information. It was like pulling teeth from time to time. There was considerable variation in the degree of cooperativeness - I guess one could expect that - depending on the people who were there or the sensitivity of the issue at the time. Overall, I think that most of the people who came before the committee are to be congratulated on the way that they had obviously prepared the information that they had readily available for the committee. Certainly, Mr Corbell is to be congratulated on pulling together what I think is an excellent Estimates Committee report in a very brief space of time. I would like to extend those congratulations beyond that to the secretarial staff, who obviously worked long and hard and out of hours to put the report together.
Proposed expenditure agreed to.
Part 2 - Auditor General
Proposed expenditure - Auditor-General, $904,000 (comprising net cost of outputs, $904,000)MR QUINLAN (12.31): Mr Speaker, as you are aware, the Standing Committee for the Chief Minister's Portfolio does go through the Auditor-General's budget and program with him and he is reasonably satisfied. Obviously, the Auditor-General would like more. He has indicated that he may be changing his mode of operation by using more salaried officers and fewer contractors, expressing some disappointment in the performance of the contractors; otherwise, he seems to be satisfied with the quantum of his budget and I am happy to support that bid.
Proposed expenditure agreed to.
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