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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 2 Hansard (26 February) . . Page.. 462 ..

MS McRAE (continuing):

although having a chance to provide more information, the Education final proposal was ranked as being considerably below the best and, in any case, below all of the other private tenderers; and

the decision by Department of Business, the Arts, Sport and Tourism to give the management of the Erindale Centre to Education was made on factors which other tenderers were not aware of and which they could not address in their proposals.

Because of these issues, the community cannot be assured that the best value for money for the ACT has been obtained. As well, the private sector tenderers were put to unnecessary effort and expense in being asked to tender for Erindale Centre.

If it was necessary for educational and practical reasons that the Erindale - - -

Mr Kaine: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: Could we ask the member to incorporate the whole report in Hansard, rather than have her read it out?

MS McRAE: I will start again, if Mr Kaine has lost the point. I will start from the beginning. He might listen a bit more carefully. If he listens, he could follow the text. I might start again.

MR SPEAKER: What page are we at?

MS McRAE: I quoted the page. I have never heard you call Ministers to order once on the ministerial statements they make, Mr Speaker. I severely object to this point of order and I hope you have rejected it.

MR SPEAKER: I think you are winding up, are you?

MS McRAE: The report continues:

If it was necessary for educational and practical reasons that the Erindale Leisure Centre should be administered by the Department of Education through Erindale College, this factor could have been identified at an early stage and the Centre excluded from the tender process from the outset.

Minister, why did you allow this grossly unfair procedure to continue?

MR STEFANIAK: I thank the member for the question. Firstly, I am somewhat amused by this. To start with, I thought Ministers were not exactly meant to get involved in tender processing. Also, it is amazing, Mr Speaker, that we now have an opposition, which is very keen for the Government to own as many things as possible,

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