Page 1013 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 28 March 1990
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MR DUBY: I do not feel qualified to give a legal opinion on the matters that Mr Moore has raised. Perhaps it would be better if I took advice and got back to the member privately.
Grace Bros Site, East Row
MRS GRASSBY: My question is to Mr Kaine, the Chief Minister. Can the Chief Minister advise this Assembly of the lease purpose permitted for the Grace Bros site in East Row? What uses are permitted under the National Capital Plan, the Civic Centre Policy Plan and the Metropolitan Policy Plan?
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, the question implies that I carry around a great deal of information in my head about lease purposes for individual blocks and I can assure members that I do not. But if the question is directed to the fact that a city shopfront and a library are to be opened on the Grace Bros site in order to provide a service to the public while the section 19 project goes ahead, I can assure Mrs Grassby that that purpose is not precluded by the present lease purpose for that particular block. It is quite in order and, as far as I am aware, there would be no departure from the existing lease purpose for that block in putting a library and shopfront there.
Private Members' Business
MR STEVENSON: My question is to the Chief Minister and concerns private members' business. Under normal circumstances the next private members' business day would be on Wednesday, 25 April, which is Anzac Day. Can alternative arrangements be made to have private members' business during that sitting week? Perhaps the evening of Tuesday, 24 April, would be suitable?
MR KAINE: Perhaps you, Mr Speaker, would be better qualified to answer this question than I. My understanding is that the standing orders themselves prescribe when private members' business will be dealt with. It just so happens that it is between the hours of 10.30 am and 12.30 pm approximately on Wednesdays of sitting weeks. That would normally be the case unless the Assembly makes a decision to vary it. Personally, I have no objection to allowing some time for private members' business in that week on the Tuesday night or the Thursday morning. It simply would require a resolution of the Assembly to effect that change. I personally would be willing to agree to such a proposal if it were put forward, and I think I could speak for the members of the Government on that matter.
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