Page 5516 - Week 17 - Wednesday, 4 December 1991
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MR JENSEN: I do not think any of us would suggest that we do not get good service from that group. I think it is excellent. However, the point that I think Mr Moore was making was in relation to the nature of the assistance that is provided. It is not able to provide us with assistance with research into points of law. Under current arrangements and instructions, it is able only to provide drafting on instructions. That is one of the problems that we have, and it may be something that the next Assembly will have to look at in the future.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
Sitting suspended from 12.49 to 2.30 pm
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Government Employees - Canberra Raiders Fundraising
MR KAINE: I address a question to the Chief Minister and Treasurer. Is it a fact that on a recent weekend fundraiser for the Raiders a number of senior officers of the ACT public service assisted and were paid out of public funds to do so? Is it correct that the Commonwealth Public Service Commissioner has declined to approve those payments - and, obviously, quite properly? If the answer to those two questions is yes, how many public servants were involved, how much in public funds was involved and what is being done to recover it?
MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, I thank Mr Kaine for the question. I have no information on the matter that Mr Kaine has raised. I will undertake to investigate it and provide him with a full reply.
Federation Square - Traffic Arrangements
MR JENSEN: My question is directed to Mr Connolly in his capacity as Minister for Urban Services. I would like to express my concern about motorist safety in regard to access and exit roads onto the Barton Highway at the Federation Square tourist development. In my view, the exit roads have insufficient merging space for traffic entering the Barton Highway. The Barton Highway is a busy thoroughfare and, as a consequence, we feel that the present arrangement is a potential needless risk to motorists using the Barton Highway and O'Halloran Place.
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