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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 7 Hansard (27 June) . . Page.. 2003 ..
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, the third stream is yet to be completely worked out, so I will take that question on notice and come back to Mr Wood.
MR WOOD: I ask a supplementary question. Would you add to that information, Mr Moore, information on the number of places in the fully funded first stream of methadone treatment? Will those places fall from 292 to 270?
MR MOORE: I will take that on notice as well.
MR CORBELL: My question is for the minister for sport. Minister, your department's ownership agreement for Budget 2000, at page 56, states:
The Bureau has 27 low maintenance sportsgrounds across Canberra, which are not required for sport use ... These grounds occupy prominent locations in suburban areas and many may be better used for residential or commercial development.
Minister, will you explain to the Assembly why you were not highlighting this potential sale of valuable social capital to the people of Canberra when the budget was released and how this statement, in your words, can simply be a mistake?
MR STEFANIAK: I thank the member for the question. Mr Corbell, you have a lot of errors in the report you tabled on the Estimates Committee. One is in my area, the Legal Rights and Welfare Centre, which I fund to the tune of $105,000. I am amazed, Mr Corbell, that it has taken you three years to note this. What has happened in those three years?
Mr Corbell: Is it a mistake or not?
MR STEFANIAK: Mr Corbell, I think we have said that. We make mistakes.
Mr Corbell: Is it a mistake?
MR STEFANIAK: Yes, Mr Corbell, it is. As early as the Estimates Committee hearing I expressed some surprise at the way that was worded. What is more, Mr Corbell, it has been there for three years. What is more, it is something that you have not picked until now. You will probably find that a number of people in the government public service have not picked that up.
Mr Corbell: Has the chief executive read it? She signed it.
MR STEFANIAK
: I do not think I necessarily have. But the document is an agreement, by the way, between the chief executive and the Treasurer. I think you might find my colleague the Treasurer may not have seen that. Indeed, his predecessor may not have seen it. That might mean that a few more public servants have not picked it up. Mr Corbell, you have a lot of mistakes in your Estimates Committee report. Let us get away from that and look at reality. What has happened? As you point out in your own
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