Page 3144 - Week 15 - Thursday, 14 December 1989
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principle that Ministers will be entirely responsible for all matters in their portfolio in accordance with the self-government Act; secondly, that Ministers will be responsible in the Assembly for all matters in respect of their portfolios; and, thirdly, that the executive deputies' role is to provide an additional source of advice and assistance to Ministers in the exercise of their ministerial authority.
The schedule is a set of guidelines to the relationship between Ministers and their executive deputies. I am certain that these arrangements will facilitate all the features of Westminster ministerial responsibility whilst enabling the alliance Government to draw effectively on the particular talents and expertise of all the members involved. By this arrangement we will have a fully representative and responsive government acting for the people of the ACT. I trust, and I am sure, that these guidelines will allay the fears that Mr Wood expressed earlier. I present the following paper:
Guidelines for the relationship between Ministers (Executive Members) and Executive Deputies.
PAPERS
MR KAINE (Chief Minister): I table for the information of members the following papers:
ACT Legislative Assembly - proposed sitting pattern for 1990.
ACT Gazette No. S43, 14 December 1989 - Administrative Arrangements.
Mr Speaker, those orders set out quite clearly, I think, the arrangements for government. They identify the responsibilities of the four executives of the Government. Of course, as indicated in the document that I previously tabled on the guidelines for the arrangements between Ministers and their executive deputies, it is quite clear that the responsibility of Ministers rests only in the four Ministers and in nobody else.
SUSPENSION OF STANDING AND TEMPORARY ORDERS
Motion (by Mr Collaery) agreed to:
That so much of the standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent the Deputy Chief Minister from moving a motion to -
(1) vary the numbers of members appointed to certain committees; and
(2) discharge certain members from attendance on committees and appointing other members.
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