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appropriate. Even when they are sometimes quite expensive, they are probably quite appropriate. However, one really wonders, in difficult economic times, just how much we do need the number of pink pavers that have been put around this city by the Alliance Government and their decisions on capital works.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
ADMINISTRATION AND PROCEDURES - STANDING COMMITTEE
Reference
MR SPEAKER: I wish to inform the Assembly that on 28 August 1991 the Standing Committee on Administration and Procedures resolved to inquire into and report on the library needs of the Legislative Assembly for the ACT.
CONSERVATION, HERITAGE AND ENVIRONMENT - STANDING COMMITTEE
Discontinued Inquiry
MR MOORE (5.19): I seek leave to make a statement regarding the inquiry by the Standing Committee on Conservation, Heritage and Environment into the environmental aspects of certain school sites.
Leave granted.
MR MOORE: On 10 May 1991 the committee resolved to inquire into and report on the environmental implications for the ACT of the proposed variations to the Territory Plan affecting the school sites at Curtin, Holder, Cook, Lyons and Hackett. These proposals were notified in the ACT Gazette on 12 April 1991 and subsequently approved by the Executive on 23 May 1991 under the Alliance Government.
The Interim Planning Act 1990 required that a plan which had been approved by the Executive be laid before the Assembly within six sitting days of its approval, where it could be rejected by the Assembly. There was no provision in the Act for the Executive to withdraw its approval of a plan once that approval had been given.
Following the change of government on 6 June and having regard to the publicly stated opposition to the school sites variations by members of the new Government when in opposition, the committee wrote to the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning seeking advice on the Government's intention as to the proposed variations, with a view to the committee determining how it should deal with the reference in the light of the Minister's response.
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