Page 1811 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 18 October 1989
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MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, the question of a casino is primarily the responsibility of Mr Whalan. I will defer to him.
MR WHALAN: Mr Speaker, the selection process is a three- stage process which is conducted under the supervision of an interdepartmental committee which is chaired by the secretary to the Chief Minister's Department. In the first stage, expressions of interest were invited, and that involved an assessment of the proponents' financial and development capacity and experience, and the nomination of all key personnel, including the proposed casino licensee.
The second stage of the selection process was restricted to those who satisfy the stage one selection criteria, and this stage involves submission and assessment of detailed design drawings and statements of site premiums. These submissions will be assessed by independent expert panels; one will examine the merits of design, and the other the merits of the financial proposals. The third stage, the final stage of assessment, involves the short-listing of proponents which will be submitted then to the casino surveillance authority for clearance in accordance with the criteria established in the ACT Casino Control Act of 1988. The final selection is then made by Cabinet, having regard to the assessments of the expert panels of the recommendations of the casino surveillance authority.
MR COLLAERY: I wish to ask a supplementary question. I address it again to the Attorney-General, and she may pass it on. Minister, have you secured competent legal advice in relation to the legality of the procedures that the Deputy Chief Minister has just outlined, it being the role of the casino surveillance authority to choose the people?
MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, the Government has the advantage of the advice and the constant hard and, I believe, very good work of the Government Law Office. I am advised that all of the procedures that the Deputy Chief Minister has just outlined have been drawn up in consultation with the Government Law Office.
Burnie Court Flats
MR KAINE: I would like to address a question to the Minister for Housing and Urban Services. Minister, I refer to a media release that you put out on 15 August, now 10 weeks ago, in which you said that you had asked the ACT Housing Trust to examine ways of improving living conditions at some of Canberra's public housing flat complexes, and that included Burnie Court. Have you had any response from that examination yet? If so, could we be informed of what you intend to do? If you have not had any response yet, is there any date by which you expect to have the result from this examination?
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