Page 4011 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 23 November 1993
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MR LAMONT: I am sorry; this is where the absolute rank stupidity of some of the members of the Opposition comes through. In fact, we could have submitted a minority report. We chose not to do so because of the concerns expressed by Ms Szuty last year. Ms Szuty prides herself on the fact that, as far as practicable, she negotiates a reasonable outcome in the recommendations. She does it very well.
However, she was not able to get the recalcitrants on the other side of the house to see reason in relation to two specific issues. I turn to them now. The first one is the recommendation in paragraph 3.24:
the Select Committee on the Establishment of an ACT Public Service review the commitment to Comcare; and
the outcomes of the initiatives currently being developed by the Chief Minister's Department in relation to Comcare be reviewed by the Select Committee on the Establishment of an ACT Public Service.
Madam Speaker, I have no difficulty with the Comcare and workers compensation arrangements that exist within the ACT administration or that should exist within the ACT administration being the subject of discussion and inquiry by an appropriate body of this Assembly. I just do not believe that it is appropriate for the Select Committee on the Establishment of an ACT Public Service, which has been established by resolution of this chamber, to now inquire into that particular matter.
Mr Humphries: You should have dissented, should you not?
MR LAMONT: I certainly did, Mr Humphries.
Mr Humphries: You did not.
MR LAMONT: Yes, I did.
Mr Humphries: You did not.
MR LAMONT: Mr Humphries, you were asleep again.
Mr Humphries: I am also blind, obviously! I cannot read it in the document.
MR LAMONT: Yes, you can. You certainly can.
Mr Moore: You will find a record of it in the minutes.
MR LAMONT: And you will also find, as is pointed out by our colleague - by your colleague; by the person who voted with you this afternoon, Mr Moore - that it is recorded in the minutes of the proceedings of the committee. If you like, I will have those minutes tabled. I did not believe that the reference was appropriate then, and I do not believe that it is appropriate now. Unlike you, Mr Humphries, at least I can be consistent.
Madam Speaker, the second matter that I had some difficulty with was the recommendation in relation to the "Himmler" report - I am sorry; the Hilmer report.
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