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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 4 Hansard (30 March) . . Page.. 1124 ..
MR QUINLAN (continuing):
(b) treat a particular event that did not actually happen as having happened and, if appropriate, treat the events as:
(i) having happened at a particular time, and
(ii) having involved particular action by a particular entity; and
(c) treat a particular event that actually happened as:
(i) having happened at a time different from the time it actually happened; or
(ii) having involved particular action by a particular entity (whether or not the event actually involved any action by that entity).
With the benefit of hindsight, might it have been prudent to have included similar provisions in the Territory's Financial Management Act prior to undertaking the Bruce Stadium redevelopment?
MR HUMPHRIES: I would support such a provision, Mr Speaker, as long as we could also retrospectively delete the existence of certain people. That would make it absolutely acceptable.
MR QUINLAN: I ask a supplementary question. I was going to rise on a point of order because Mr Humphries was verging on answering my supplementary question before I actually asked it.
Mr Smyth: If he has answered it, sit down.
MR QUINLAN: He was only verging on it. I would like the Treasurer to consider whether similar provisions might be included in the Land (Planning and Environment) Act and the futsal slab might disappear altogether.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, let us be clear. Those sorts of provisions would be of great benefit to any government of any particular day. Mr Quinlan might like to show his confidence in the future prospects of his own party by putting forward such a provision for inclusion in legislation before the next election.
MR HIRD: Mr Speaker, my question is to the Minister for Health and Community Care, Mr Moore. In the last two days you, Mr Minister, and the Treasurer, Mr Humphries, have caught out Mr Quinlan making serious mistakes about the health budget. Yet he continues to argue that the Government has not allowed for future needs or for inflation. Can you confirm that the Government has in fact proposed an increase to the health budget to allow for needs growth and for inflation?
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