Page 2605 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 24 August 1993
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PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Report on 1993-94 New Capital Works Progr
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MR LAMONT (8.01): Pursuant to order, I present report No. 16 of the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure on the 1993-94 new capital works program, together with a copy of the extracts of the minutes of proceedings, and I move:
That the report be noted.
Madam Speaker, as was the case last year, the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee has at some length investigated the major capital works provisions for the Government for the 1993-94 financial year. As is custom, this matter is investigated by an appropriate Assembly committee prior to the budget being brought down in this house. Madam Speaker, two issues that I wish to address myself to in tabling this report this evening concern the question of public access to information provided to the committee and - - -
Mr Cornwell: You should have been here for the MPI this afternoon.
MR LAMONT: Secondly, I want to refer to the process which the Planning Committee forms part of in that community consultation. To that extent, Mr Cornwell's interjection is quite pertinent. It is appropriate that I read into the record the organisations that appeared before the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee, all of which had made previous written submissions. They are the ACT Right to Life Association, the Association of Parents and Friends of ACT Schools, the Belconnen Community Council, the Conservation Council of the South-East Region and Canberra, the Gungahlin Community Council, Mr D. Hannan of Hannan and Associates Pty Ltd, the Master Builders Association, the North Duffy/Holder Residents Action Group and the Watson Community Association.
Madam Speaker, in addition to those non-government witnesses who appeared before the committee, members will find on page 24 a list of the government agencies that appeared. It is an extremely long list of government officers who on the public record were required not only to answer questions put by members of the committee but also in turn to answer the issues raised by the particular non-government groups that I have already outlined. That was seen as being an absolutely invaluable process to the committee in arriving at the conclusions, the outlines of which are contained on the fourth page of the recommendations. I am laughing because my copy does not have all the pages numbered, Madam Speaker.
Mrs Carnell: It is all right. It is not just yours.
MR LAMONT: Members of the Assembly will find the recommendations on what should be page 4. There are some 18 individual recommendations that the committee has made. We have done so, as I have said, Madam Speaker, after an exhaustive public consultative process. That process that this Assembly asks its Planning Committee to go through is part of the overall consultative process that this Assembly and the Government have put in place. That needs to be borne in
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