Page 2087 - Week 06 - Thursday, 8 June 2017

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We then had some more discussion on that subject and then Mr Coe said:

Just on that point, though, this letter, at the front of the annual report, to Andrew Barr, signed by the chair and the chief executive, is dated 23 September.

Mr Dawes said:

Yes.

Mr Coe asked:

By that date the LDA had seen the draft report of the Auditor-General and was well aware of her commentary with regard to what a strategic acquisition is. So how could it be that the most publicised land acquisition that the government made, a very controversial $4.2 million purchase, is not included in that list?

Mr Fitzgerald replied:

The business purchases are actually recorded against the inventory. We have made a note of the purchases within note 25 on page 123.

Mr Coe asked:

But why would it not be in that list of strategic acquisitions?

I asked:

Why isn’t it in the list?

Mr Fitzgerald replied:

I believe that was an oversight. I do not have an answer to that.

Ms Berry did say:

We might take that on notice and check why it is reported differently in the annual report and come back to you on that one, Chair.

I asked:

Reading note 25 refers to the land for the city to the lake project. Is that the land that you are talking about?

Mr Fitzgerald said:

Yes.

Mr Dawes said:

No.

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