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(2) the Committee be comprised of one Member to be nominated by the Government to be notified in writing to the Speaker, one Member to be nominated by the Opposition to be notified in writing to the Speaker and one independent Member to be notified in writing to the Speaker;
(3) two members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum of the Committee;
(4) the Committee shall report from time to time, with the final report to be made by 17 February 1995;
(5) if the Assembly is not sitting when the Committee has completed its inquiry, the Committee may send its report to the Speaker or, in the absence of the Speaker, to the Deputy Speaker who is authorised to give directions for its printing and circulation;
(6) the foregoing provisions of this resolution have effect notwithstanding anything contained in the standing orders.
Madam Speaker, I seek leave to move the amendments to that motion that have been separately circulated today.
Leave granted.
MR KAINE: I move:
Paragraph (1), omit "Select Committee", substitute "Standing Committee".
Omit paragraph (4).
Paragraph (5), omit "inquiry", substitute "consideration of a report".
Members will know that, when the select committee on the public service tabled its report on Tuesday of this week, that committee ceased to exist. One of its recommendations was that, because there are so many major matters outstanding the ramifications of which will persist for some time during the implementation of the legislation, another committee be set up to oversight that implementation on behalf of the Assembly. Since the original committee was a select committee, my notice of motion consequent upon that recommendation was that another select committee be established. However, the Government has since indicated that they would be happy for the committee to be a standing committee rather than a select committee; hence the amendments to my original motion that appear before you, which, if passed by the Assembly, will create a standing committee to deal with these matters.
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