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no actual cost to the ACT, but you had not thought about that. There may be some contribution to that $3m coming to the ACT, but I really expect that that will be substantially the Commonwealth cost. I will be happy to provide all the arrangements here that we can. If you had thought about this just a little bit more, you would not have asked those questions.
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MR MOORE: Madam Speaker, my question is directed to the Chief Minister. It relates to a public document also referred to by Ms Szuty. Madam Speaker, I shall take care to note what you said earlier. The public document that I refer to is a submission to the board of inquiry from the Department of the Environment, Land and Planning.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Moore, in what way is that public? I do not quite understand this business. May I question you, using the prerogative of the Chair?
MR MOORE: Certainly, Madam Speaker. As part of the submissions that were made to the board of inquiry, I understand that this document was made public.
MADAM SPEAKER: I am sorry; I still do not understand. Is it under an authority to be published, to be used anywhere else, to be distributed, or to be given to anyone? I simply do not understand; I am sorry, Mr Moore. That is why I am asking you.
Mr Connolly: Are you trying to use this Assembly to get privilege?
MR MOORE: Madam Speaker, I am not using this Assembly to get privilege. I shall only quote - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: I am not inferring that, no.
MR MOORE: I do not have those details at my fingertips, Madam Speaker. I shall just quote two lines from the document, Madam Speaker. It says - - -
Mr Lamont: Madam Speaker, I rise to take a point of order in relation to the use of the document that has been referred to by Ms Szuty and now by Mr Moore. I understand that this document is a document that will be considered by Professor Pearce in his deliberations on the evidence presented to him by people appearing before his inquiry. For this Assembly to be debating, discussing and/or dissecting such a document while that inquiry is still being undertaken involves, I would suggest, at the worst - - -
Mr Berry: Propriety is not going to worry Mr Moore.
Mr Lamont: There is a question of propriety. On the best scenario, this does not necessarily place this Assembly, or members of the Assembly, in contempt of that inquiry; but it would, I believe, lead to the public in general viewing the conduct of this Assembly in a far lesser light if we have a document which will be used to arrive at a decision by Professor Pearce being debated and discussed in this Assembly.
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