Page 974 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 19 March 1991
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Parking Inspectors
MR STEFANIAK: My question is to Mr Duby, the Minister for Urban Services. Mr Duby, I refer you to an article in the Sydney Sun-Herald on 10 March this year that alleged that New South Wales parking inspectors have been told to issue at least 10 parking tickets every day or face dismissal. Mr Duby, I hope that the ACT does not have any similar type of quota system. I wonder whether you would comment on that.
MR DUBY: Mr Speaker, I thank Mr Stefaniak for the question. The short answer is yes, I am aware of the article that Mr Stefaniak referred to. In it, it was alleged that parking inspectors in Sydney, anyway, were instructed to write at least 10 tickets a day or face the sack. I would like to say quite categorically that that situation simply does not exist in the ACT. ACT parking inspectors do not have any quotas to meet, and tickets are actually issued only in relation to allegedly illegally parked vehicles. There is no quota at all.
The role of ACT parking inspectors is to keep our streets safe by deterring illegal parking, even at 2 am, and to ensure that all motorists get a fair chance to utilise parking resources. More infringement notices, of course, are issued in areas of high parking demand than in less congested areas, because that is where more motorists wish to park illegally. So, of course, that is where the resources of the parking inspection unit are concentrated. But I would like to repeat that there is no quota system whatsoever. Inspectors are not carpeted if they have not been able to produce a certain quota of tickets per week or per day, and, indeed, I know that I speak for the rest of the Government when I say that I would hate to see a system such as that ever introduced into the ACT.
Financial Accounts
MRS GRASSBY: My question is to the Chief Minister. When will the 1989-90 audited financial statement for the entire ACT Government be available?
MR KAINE: I think that is the same question that the Leader of the Opposition asked me earlier, Mr Speaker, and I took it on notice.
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