Page 4828 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 11 November 2009
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highly qualified staff within the Planning and Land Authority who have been engaged at the officials level around the development of this national priority. Of course, the Chief Minister and I are both members of the local government and planning ministerial council and take an active role in debates as part of that ministerial council process.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Seselja, a supplementary question?
MR SESELJA: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Minister, how will the new planning body recently announced by the Chief Minister interact with ACTPLA, what will it do to improve planning outcomes in the territory and when did you become aware that this new body was to be established?
Mr Corbell: That question is out of order—completely out of order.
Members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Corbell has the floor. I will hear Mr Corbell first.
Mr Corbell: The substantive question from Ms Le Couteur related to the Prime Minister’s announced reforms around planning for cities. Mr Seselja has now sought to ask a supplementary relating to administrative arrangements for a new land department within the territory. It is a completely different matter and does not relate to the substantive question. It is out of order.
MR SESELJA: Mr Speaker, on the point of order: supplementary questions need to be relevant to the question or the answer. In his answer—
Mr Corbell: Oh—
Mr Seselja: That is what the standing orders say.
Mr Corbell: One rule for Zed and one rule for everyone else.
MR SESELJA: Can I finish, Mr Speaker?
MR SPEAKER: Yes. Mr Corbell, Mr Seselja has the call.
MR SESELJA: In the answer, Mr Barr extolled the virtues of the planning system and the reforms that they had made. This is a new step in the reform process and it is reasonable to ask the question based on the answers that he has given.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Barr, the question is in order.
MR BARR: I thank Mr Seselja for the question. Firstly, I need to correct the premise in the question. The Chief Minister has not announced a new planning agency. As I think the Chief Minister has been at pains to explain to the Leader of the Opposition, who clearly is a slow learner in these matters, the agency that the Chief Minister has suggested creating relates to the delivery, encompassing the roles of the Land
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