Page 2358 - Week 07 - Thursday, 4 August 2022
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Committees—Standing
Amendment to resolution
DR PATERSON (Murrumbidgee) (10.50): I move:
That the resolution of the Assembly of 2 December 2020, as amended, that established general purpose standing committees, be amended by:
(1) in the table at 1. Planning, Transport and City Services—Areas of Responsibility, after the words “Planning and Land Management”, insert “(excluding parks and conservation)”; and
(2) in the table at 2. Environment, Climate Change and Biodiversity—Areas of Responsibility, add “Parks and Conservation”.
The motion for consideration by the Assembly asks for a committee area responsibility, namely parks and conservation, to be transferred from one committee to a different committee. At its meeting of 8 March 2022, the Standing Committee on Environment, Climate Change and Biodiversity wrote to the Standing Committee on Planning, Transport and City Services in relation to its area of responsibility under the 2 December 2020 resolution of establishment of standing committees.
Pursuant to the resolution of establishment, all land management matters, including parks and conservation, are the responsibility of the Standing Committee on Planning, Transport and City Services. Following consideration of its own areas of responsibility, the Standing Committee on Environment, Climate Change and Biodiversity is of the view that parks and conservation is integral to its ability to inquire into areas that are covered by this portfolio.
Consequently, on 9 March 2022, as chair, I wrote to the Chair of the Standing Committee on Planning, Transport and City Services, asking if they would consider a change to the committee resolution of establishment which would reallocate parks and conservation from the Standing Committee on Planning, Transport and City Services to the Standing Committee on Environment, Climate Change and Biodiversity. On 18 July 2022 the Chair of the Standing Committee on Planning, Transport and City Services replied to the letter, stating that the committee agreed to the transfer of parks and conservation to the Standing Committee on Environment, Climate Change and Biodiversity. I commend the motion to the Assembly.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Committees—Standing
Establishment
MS LEE (Kurrajong—Leader of the Opposition) (10.52): I move:
That this Assembly:
(1) notes that:
(a) integrity in the Canberra’s public institutions is essential;
(b) there are opportunities to continuously improve Canberra’s integrity system; and
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