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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 3 Hansard (26 March) . . Page.. 664 ..

MR MOORE (continuing):

This is also interesting, Mr Speaker. At paragraph 4.67 the report reads:

The committee specifically asked whether a proposal was put up in relation to the Health building in Moore Street, Civic. Officials told the committee that such a proposal `was on the draft program but got deleted on the way through the process'; also, that the building itself is a DUS -

Department of Urban Services -

building rather than a Health building.

Paragraph 4.68 reads:

The information about a capital works proposal involving the Moore Street building appears to contradict advice to the committee by Administration officials that the proposals shown in the Draft Program are the same as agencies originally bid for. The committee was told that `people are being much more astute in what they bid for' and hence only put forward proposals of the value and priority shown in the Draft Program.

I would like to emphasise the last sentence in paragraph 4.68:

The committee does not accept that there is such a coincidence between bids for capital works projects and the final result.

We hope, Mr Speaker, that in the following year we will actually see some of the proposals that are put up, as opposed to having the priorities set by the departments. I think it did come over to us that, for these millions and millions of dollars, the priorities were set by the department. We will be seeking to find a greater input from the community, in terms of what their priorities are, rather than having the priorities of capital works expenditure set simply by departments.

Mr Speaker, Report No. 10 is another unanimous report of the Standing Committee on Planning and Environment and another substantive report. I would like to finish by again thanking my colleagues for their work on the issues, particularly in the very tight timeframe in which we operated.

MR BERRY (4.48): Mr Speaker, I will not be participating in this committee from this point forward. My colleague Ms McRae has been appointed as of today. After a year and a half or so of involvement in this committee, I would just like to say that it has been a very interesting experience and it has been a committee process which I have been quite happy to have had the privilege to be involved in. In relation to this report, I would like to keep my remarks fairly tight. Mr Moore has gone to many of the issues.

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