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SOCIAL POLICY - STANDING COMMITTEE
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MR WOOD, by leave: Mr Speaker, I present the following paper:

Social Policy - Standing Committee - fluoride inquiry - copy of letter from Mr B. Wood, chairperson, to Prof. A.J. McMichael, chairman, National Health and Medical Research Council Working Group on Effectiveness of Water Fluoridation, dated 30 April 1990.

PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE - STANDING COMMITTEE
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MR JENSEN, by leave: I move:

That:

(1) If the Assembly is not sitting when the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure has completed its inquiry into the proposal to construct a fence at Stage '88 in Commonwealth Park the committee may send its report to the Speaker or, in the absence of the Speaker, to the Deputy Speaker, who is authorised to give directions for its printing and circulation; and

(2) the foregoing provisions of this resolution have effect notwithstanding anything contained in the standing orders.

Mr Speaker, the committee was requested by the Minister responsible for the arts to consider the issue of a fence for Stage '88. However, we were also advised by the Minister at the time that the funds that had been provided as part of the initial grant for Stage '88 during the bicentennial year had not been used and the money would be lost if a decision on the use to be made of these funds - either for a fence or for something else - was not made prior to the committee being able to report to the Assembly in the normal fashion.

This motion will allow the committee to report within the three-week initial period, as the period for submissions to the committee closes on 11 May and the committee is hoping to have its discussion and any possible public hearings on this matter completed as quickly as possible. This will then, as I have said, allow the committee to report prior to the next sittings so that the Minister will be in a position to make a decision one way or another.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

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