Page 3265 - Week 12 - Thursday, 19 November 1992
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QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Lake Ginninderra Foreshore
MR KAINE: I address a question to the Minister for Lightning Ridge and opals - I am sorry, the chairman of the Planning Committee, Mr Lamont, through you, Madam Speaker. On Tuesday the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning answered a question in connection with the Tuggeranong festival. He talked about Lake Ginninderra adjacent to the Belconnen Mall, and he said:
Having seen the success of the planning in Tuggeranong, my views have somewhat changed and I think that in the future development around as far as the Water Police Station would be quite appropriate at Lake Ginninderra.
How does that fit with your submission to the Heritage Committee that the whole area around Lake Ginninderra should be declared as a heritage area and preserved from any development?
MR LAMONT: I thank you for your question. It is out of order, as indeed - - -
Mr Kaine: How can it be out of order?
MR LAMONT: Quite simply. The capacity in which I have undertaken a series of actions is as a member of the Legislative Assembly and not as chair of the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee. However, I am prepared to answer the question if you so wish.
Mr Kaine: I hardly think you can shrug off your role as chairman of the Planning Committee and say that it is irrelevant.
MR LAMONT: I am sorry; it is a matter of fact. I would have assumed that, having been here longer than any of your colleagues, you would have been aware of the protocols. You can ask a chair of a committee of this Assembly a question on a matter affecting that person's responsibilities.
Mr Kaine: Would you like to answer it, or would you prefer not to?
MR LAMONT: I am suggesting to you that it is out of order.
MR KAINE: In that case, Madam Speaker, I will ask a supplementary question which I do not think he can rule as being out of order. As Planning Committee chairman, have you reconciled your views about the development around Lake Ginninderra with those of the responsible Minister, or are you in a state of conflict?
MR LAMONT: Could you repeat that, Mr Kaine? You stuttered a little bit at the early part and I could not understand the total gist of it. I am quite serious.
MR KAINE: I know that the members of the Government do not understand many things, Madam Speaker; but I am astonished that Mr Lamont cannot understand the question. The question is: Have you, as chairman of the Planning Committee of this Assembly, reconciled your views about development around Lake Ginninderra with those of the Minister who sits in front of you, or do you have contrary views as to development around Lake Ginninderra?
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