Page 5026 - Week 17 - Tuesday, 11 December 1990
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committed itself, politically, to a process that is reflected in the draft planning Bills.
If a situation arose that tended to negate the effects we are seeking in the draft planning process, Mr Moore could not possibly be postulating that we would want to set up a separate regime weeks before the new one came in. It does not make political sense. It is not practical. I feel that there is a lot of grandstanding going on; but, to do justice to Mr Moore, if he has some really genuine concerns I am sure they would be addressed by all in this house if that occasion arose.
Clause agreed to.
Clause 23
MR MOORE (11.36): I just draw attention to the definition of "the Plan" there. My reading of it is that it could well be that "the Plan" could be a plan or a part thereof that can come into effect. That is my own reading of that, without having had the opportunity of taking advice on it. I have some concern about that because we could bring in incoherent little bits and pieces of the plan, in the way that I have spoken of earlier; but I do not wish to repeat myself.
Clause agreed to.
Clauses 24 to 29, by leave, taken together, and agreed to.
Clause 30
Amendment (by Mr Kaine) proposed:
Page 11, subclause 30(4), line 21, omit "subsection (2)", substitute "subsection (3)".
MR MOORE (11.37): It is very fortunate, in fact, that we did not just allow the Government to ram this Bill through as they had intended. They wanted to take the Bill as a whole. It was only that I stood up and said that we did not want to take the Bill as a whole. This would be an error if, in fact, they had allowed it to go through, in spite of the fact that it had gone through the Scrutiny of Bills Committee and that it was a matter that I discussed today with the very competent staff of Mr Kaine's department. Mr Connolly was there when the matter was raised. It reflects much more about the attitudes of the Alliance Government than it does about anything else and it reflects the fact that they are still just trying to push this through.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause, as amended, agreed to.
Clause 31 agreed to.
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