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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 7 Hansard (28 June) . . Page.. 2184 ..
MR SMYTH
(continuing):Mr Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is a government that will continue to deliver. Why? Because we have a policy unit in Chief Minister's. Because we work together. Because we can tie these things up and say, "How does one portfolio impact upon another? How is it that we get the return that the people of Canberra deserve on the money that we spend on their behalf?" It is because we understand and we work together. It is because we do the things that those opposite so readily criticise us for so often. But are we dismayed? No, because we know where we are going. We know that we have a plan in place and we have the policies to achieve it.
MS CARNELL (Chief Minister) (5.29 pm): During yesterday's debate on the interim report of the Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration on the ACTEW/AGL joint venture, Mr Kaine expressed concern about my decision not to table the status report provided to the committee by ACTEW or the interim report of Mr Marks, the probity auditor engaged to monitor the development of the joint venture. Mr Kaine stated that both the chief executive of ACTEW, Mr McKay, and Mr Marks had agreed that these documents would be tabled.
In the interests of ensuring that the Assembly has full visibility of all of the important aspects of this major initiative, I sought further information on the advice which Mr McKay and Mr Marks provided to the committee. I have been advised that they did not express any view to the committee on the desirability or otherwise of tabling these documents beyond advising that this was a matter for government.
As I indicated yesterday, the government remains of the view that it would be inappropriate to table in the Assembly the interim report of ACTEW to the committee as the matters it addresses are still in progress and it also contains some matters that are commercial-in-confidence. This accords with the advice of Mr Marks to the chief executive of my department.
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER
: Order! Chief Minister, would you resume your seat, please? Under standing order 34, it being 5:30, I ask the minister to rise to extend the time for the debate.Mr Moore
: I move to extend the time for debate in accordance with standing orders, Mr Temporary Deputy Speaker.MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER
: I am informed by the Clerk that I am obliged to adjourn the Assembly.Ms Carnell
: Okay. It means I cannot table what I need to table.MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER
: Matters requiring a reply have not been raised in the preceding adjournment debate. The Chief Minister will get an opportunity. I apologise to the Chief Minister and to the house. Under standing order 34, the Assembly stands adjourned.
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