Page 546 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 19 May 1992
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Mr Moore: I foreshadowed that I would seek leave to move a motion in the terms circulated. I now seek leave to do so.
Leave not granted.
ADMINISTRATION AND PROCEDURES - STANDING COMMITTEE
New Assembly Premises Inquiry - Alteration to Reporting Date
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (3.46): Madam Speaker, I seek leave to move a motion to alter the reporting date and requirements of the Standing Committee on Administration and Procedures inquiry into the provision of new premises for the Assembly.
Leave granted.
MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, I move:
That paragraph (3) of the resolution of the Assembly of 9 April 1992 referring the question of new premises of the Assembly to the Standing Committee on Administration and Procedures be omitted and the following paragraph substituted:
"(3) The Committee shall report at the latest by the first sitting day of the Budget Sittings and, if the Assembly is not sitting when the Committee has completed its inquiry, 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. The foregoing provisions of this paragraph have effect notwithstanding anything contained in the standing orders.".
On 9 April the Assembly referred to the Standing Committee on Administration and Procedures, for inquiry and report, the provision of new premises for the Assembly. The reference required that the committee report to the Assembly by the last sitting day of the 1992 autumn sittings.
On 14 April, Madam Speaker, you wrote to me seeking two submissions from the Government to assist in this inquiry. The first submission was to address the options considered by the Government, other than the South Building, to house the Assembly, and that submission was forwarded to the committee on 4 May. The second submission is to provide detailed comments from the Government concerning all the issues addressed by the terms of reference, information on possible options for the redesign and refurbishment of the South Building, and an indication of the Government's preferred option. That submission was to be lodged by 15 May.
I wrote to you, Madam Speaker, on 14 May indicating that the Government would be unable to present the second submission by that date. I proposed that the submission be available by early June. I am conscious that as a result of the delay in the Government's detailed submission the reporting date for the
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