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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 7 Hansard (28 June) . . Page.. 2145 ..
MS CARNELL
: Sorry, no comment. I will just get over that one. I think the report is quite adequate. When you compare it with the couple of paragraphs that Mr Stanhope submitted for his last travel report, I think you would have to say that the report was-Mr Kaine
: I rise to a point of order, Mr Speaker. Will you ask the Chief Minister to deal with the question that I asked of her? It had nothing to do with Mr Stanhope.MS CARNELL
: You are just getting your knickers in a knot, Trevor. Calm down. I make the point again that I believe that the travel report was absolutely adequate. If you have looked at other travel reports that have been submitted to this place, some that do not actually make the bottom of the first page, you would have to say that this travel report was particularly useful. The fact that Mr Harris is leaving my employ has absolutely nothing to do with it. I know that Mr Harris' next job will be extraordinarily important to the ACT, particularly in the technology area.MR KAINE
: I have a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. Since the report does not fulfil the Chief Minister's expectations of this person, will the Chief Minister confirm that this trip was nothing but a junket and a payoff for Mr Harris before he left her employment?MS CARNELL
: Mr Speaker, it was in line with my requirements. Mr Harris gave it to me. I believed that it was totally appropriate. Getting right down to it here, the executive tables travel reports and travel information every quarter on the dollars that we spend and everything else. What happens with the rest of the Assembly? The rest of the Assembly does not do the same. If Mr Kaine really believes that it is important to be transparent in areas such as travel, he would be urging the Administration and Procedure Committee to change the Assembly's approach with regard to travel.Mr Kaine:
I am asking about your approach, your report and your staffer.
MS CARNELL: I come back to it: whether my staffer's report is appropriate, lives up to my expectations, is surely a decision for me.
MR WOOD
: My question is to Mr Moore, the Minister for Health and Community Care. In doing so, Mr Moore, I apologise for mumbling away here and groaning about your previous long answer and encourage you to give me a long answer to this question, so long as it is sticks to the point of the question. It is related to the report of the Special Death Review Committee and is a follow-up to Mr Stanhope's question.Minister, it seemed to me that you avoided Mr Stanhope's question about the problems of communication indicated in the report as being partly responsible for the delay in surgery. You said in passing that the report covered the issue. The report does not cover the issue; it only raises it. It does not deal with it. Minister, this is an important factor which could be critical in future lifesaving circumstances. Will you tell us what were those particular communication problems that contributed to the delay? More importantly, have they been overcome?
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