Page 3812 - Week 14 - Thursday, 10 December 1992
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Mrs Carnell: You said that you had.
MR BERRY: I said that I have agreed to provide figures - - -
Mrs Carnell: You said that you had a minute ago.
MR BERRY: Well, I have provided figures. I provided figures for the September quarter and there will be later figures as well. You got quarterly figures. You got the performance report of the Board of Health and three months later you will get it again.
Mrs Carnell: I got the activity report.
MR BERRY: That is right.
MR DE DOMENICO: Madam Speaker, I have a supplementary question. I ask the Minister again: How much does this mean? I do not want degrees. You said that you were over your portfolio. You mentioned yesterday knowing what is going on. How much in dollar terms has your department spent since July? We have not had September quarter figures yet. How much has it spent and how much has it overspent?
MR BERRY: You have had the figures provided. The performance report was provided to you.
Mr De Domenico: That is not true.
Mr Kaine: The fact that it does not tell you anything is irrelevant.
MR BERRY: Would the galahs opposite stop screeching, in order that I can answer the question? You had your chance to ask the question. I sat in silence while you asked it. Now let me answer it. You had the performance report for September. You will get another performance report in three months. It will include the extra information that Mrs Carnell has asked for.
Nightclub Security Personnel
MS ELLIS: My question is directed to the Attorney-General. Can the Minister inform the Assembly what steps have been taken in assessing the need to license nightclub security personnel?
MR CONNOLLY: I thank Ms Ellis for the question. Some months ago I indicated that the Government was looking at the need to have some form of regulation of the security or bouncer industry in Canberra. There was some comment at the time that the Labor Government once again was being overregulatory, or some such criticism; but recent events have shown that this is an area of some concern.
I have today published, and I will circulate for all interested members, a major discussion paper prepared by my department, setting out the issues involved in licensing the security industries and, in particular, bouncers. A theme which emerges from this is that, although the ACT is one of the few jurisdictions which do not have any licensing of the security industry, in those States where licensing has been in place for some years it seems to have become merely a bureaucratic process of obtaining a piece of paper. While it had a short-term benefit,
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