Page 2799 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 13 September 1994
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development of more than one dwelling on a block. The lessees in Banks followed the procedure. Such applications are required to comply with the Territory Plan as well as any other lease and development conditions. Lease conditions have been varied to permit dual occupancy in many Canberra suburbs.
PERSONAL EXPLANATION
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General and Minister for Health): Mr Acting Speaker, I claim to have been misrepresented.
MR ACTING SPEAKER: Are you seeking to make a personal explanation under standing order 46 or standing order 47?
MR CONNOLLY: Indeed. Mr Acting Speaker, Mrs Carnell accused me, before she withdrew, of misleading the house in relation to her promises in respect of Health. I wish to read to the chamber Mrs Carnell's promises in respect of Health, to refer to what I said, and table, once again, the document.
Mr Humphries: Not selectively.
MR CONNOLLY: Not selectively at all; comprehensively, Mr Humphries. Mrs Carnell's counterbudget has two columns. That is fairly simple. She can get that right. One column is headed "Reduction"; one column is headed "Increase". In respect of Health there are reductions of $26m, $2m, $5m and $1m - $34m. In respect of increases, there are expenditures of $1m, paediatric unit; $1m, long-stay convalescent unit; and $1m, cardio-thoracic unit - $3m. Reductions of $34m and increases of $3m mean a net reduction of $31m. My statement was that she has promised to slash over $30m from health expenditure in the ACT. QED, and I table the proof of Mrs Carnell's irresponsible and foolish statements.
SNOWY MOUNTAINS HYDRO-ELECTRIC AUTHORITY
Ministerial Statement
MR LAMONT (Minister for Urban Services, Minister for Housing and Community Services, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport): Mr Acting Speaker, I ask for leave to make a statement in relation to reform of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority and the impact of that on the ACT.
Leave granted.
MR LAMONT: Mr Acting Speaker, the electricity industry in Australia has been going through significant reform. Prices have been held steady or even reduced over a number of years through industry efficiency gains. The recent Darwin Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting agreed that further national reforms were necessary to continue this trend.
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