Page 2493 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 23 August 1994
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MR CORNWELL: Will the Minister take full responsibility for allowing this explosion of dual occupancies to occur in a new suburb, without any real consultation with local residents? Will he also explain why his department blatantly contravened the schedule and approved what appear to be at least nine illegal dual occupancies?
MR WOOD: The inquiry that I indicated will look very rapidly at issues in Canberra will, among other things, focus on what is happening in Banks. Your questions will be examined in that context. It is certainly the case that there is a larger number of dual occupancies than expected in that area. I am aware of the papers that Mr Cornwell is tabling, and the matter is under investigation by me. I am looking into it. I will come back to Mr Cornwell on the details of my inquiries.
MR CORNWELL: Madam Speaker, I ask a supplementary question. Would the Minister, in taking that on notice, also investigate whether a similar breach of faith has occurred anywhere else in any other suburbs of Canberra under Labor's so-called planning control?
MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, I note the term "breach of faith". I will look at that and see whether there has been a change of expectations on the part of the developer or whoever else is active in that area. Mr Cornwell can be assured that it is a matter I am looking at.
Ms Follett: I ask that further questions be placed on the notice paper, Madam Speaker.
Budget Supplementation
MS FOLLETT: I would like to conclude an answer to a question asked of me by Ms Szuty on 16 June. It concerned some documents tabled in the Assembly on 12 May relating to budget supplementation. Madam Speaker, in brief, the error that was contained in those documents was in a supplementary summary table, not in any of the formal instruments that were tabled. Nevertheless, it has been corrected, and I thank Ms Szuty for drawing that to my attention. I would like to table the full answer to that and the revised documents, and I ask that they be incorporated in Hansard.
Leave granted.
Documents incorporated at Appendix 1.
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