Page 3535 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 12 October 1994
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MR HUMPHRIES: I have a supplementary question, Madam Speaker. I ask the Minister: Is he aware that Mr Reeks paid his application fee when he was making the application to obtain a licence early in this period of eight months; and that, subsequently, after, I think, a period of about a month, he was again asked to pay the same licence fee as he had already paid $300-odd? Does the Minister accept that it is remotely possible that some of the delay in this matter has not been of Mr Reeks's doing but because of incompetence within his department?
MR CONNOLLY: Mrs Carnell says that the bureaucrats are lying; Mr Humphries says that the bureaucrats are incompetent. Keep it up; it is a great Liberal campaign tactic in the ACT; we love it. No, Madam Speaker; I do not believe that there has been incompetence in my department. I would acknowledge that it does appear that somebody asked twice for the money, but it has not been the fee or the money that has caused the delay. The delay, on the advice that I have received, relates to the issue of the application. What I say to Mr Humphries is this: If he would like to be briefed privately about this, I am happy to do that; but I am not going to produce all these details of documents in a public forum.
Mr Humphries: He is sitting over there. Go and talk to him. Tell him personally what the problem is.
MR CONNOLLY: This is a little political stunt. I am not going to engage in that political stunt and table all these documents going to a person's private business affairs. I am hamstrung. Mr Humphries can pull the stunt; but I am not going to come in here and table the Consumer Affairs Bureau file which contains a lot of this detail, because it is a probity related matter. It contains some fairly sensitive information relating to him, which, obviously, he would not want to have in the public domain.
Legislative Assembly - Computer Network
MS SZUTY: Madam Speaker, my question without notice is to you. It relates to how the new computer network is being implemented in the Legislative Assembly. It is an installation which has the potential to be, and has already been, highly disruptive to the normal working days of Assembly members and their staff. My question is, Madam Speaker: Can you inform the Assembly who has the role of managing the installation of this computer network from the Assembly's perspective; and what is the duration of this appointment?
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you for the question, Ms Szuty. With absolutely no warning, no, I cannot inform anyone of anything right here and now. I will take the question on notice and produce the information as soon as I can.
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