Page 4937 - Week 13 - Thursday, 12 November 2009
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members of the ACT Legislative Assembly and for people in the ACT. I seek leave to table this graph.
Leave granted.
MRS DUNNE: I table the following paper:
Enlarged Cotter Dam—Graphs—
Costs—Percentage change.
This is a visual demonstration of why we believe there needs to be a thorough inquiry, a thorough inquiry which is open to the public and where the members of the Legislative Assembly are in control of the questioning. Mr Baxter would be quite welcome to make a submission, and he has the capacity to do so. But what is really interesting, what we have really seen today, is that the essential elements—
Mr Rattenbury: I have.
MRS DUNNE: It is not true, actually. The essential elements of what was put forward by Mr Seselja in this motion are not taken up. They are touched on. They were touched on—
Mr Rattenbury: How would you know? You weren’t listening, Vicki. You were not listening. You haven’t got a clue.
MRS DUNNE: I have read them. They were touched on, but you have to remember that the first one is a determination of whether it is prudent to make this spending. With the whole term, when you find that the government is as comfortable as the responsible minister is with this outcome, you know that you have got it wrong. The Greens, who said that they are here about openness, accountability and scrutiny, have rolled over and have not even allowed this Assembly to scrutinise the terms of reference for Mr Baxter. We are open and accountable and we are about scrutiny so long as it suits us.
There are many other issues that need to be addressed. I hope that Mr Baxter does address the issue. We were told that the big cost increase in relation to the dam was that we suddenly discovered that we had to take out another nine metres of fill. I would like to table a graph which is a copy of page 16 of the target out-turn costs. Then I would like Mr Baxter to be able to report back to the Assembly on when Actew discovered the nine metres and how much of the nine metres is real. I seek leave to table that.
Leave granted.
MRS DUNNE: I table the following paper:
Enlarged Cotter Dam—Graphs—
Figure 1.3.10 ECD minimum excavation line.
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