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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 2 Hansard (27 February) . . Page.. 512 ..

LEGAL AFFAIRS - STANDING COMMITTEE
Inquiry into Legal Assistance to Members

MR OSBORNE (10.32): I move:

That:

(1) if the Assembly is not sitting when the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs has completed its inquiry into the development of guidelines for the provision of assistance to Members in relation to legal proceedings, the Committee may send its Report to the Speaker or, in the absence of the Speaker, to the Deputy Speaker, who is authorised to give directions for its printing, circulation and publication; and

(2) the foregoing provisions of this resolution have effect notwithstanding anything contained in the standing orders.

Mr Speaker, I will be very brief. We attempted to have this very complex report ready for this week, but we were unable to do that due to the fact that we have two new members on the Legal Affairs Committee. In fairness to them and in fairness to the whole Assembly, we have taken a little bit more time, but we will be reporting in the next couple of weeks. That is the reason for this motion.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS - STANDING COMMITTEE
Report on Review of Auditor-General's Report No. 6 of 1995
Debate resumed from 5 September 1996, on motion by Mr Wood:

That the report be noted.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS - STANDING COMMITTEE
Report on Inquiry into Voluntary Parent Contribution Scheme -
Revised Government Response
Debate resumed from 25 June 1996, on motion by Mr Stefaniak:

That the Assembly takes note of the paper.

MS TUCKER (10.34): Mr Speaker, a lot of time has passed since the Government tabled the revised response to the Public Accounts Committee report on voluntary contributions and, of course, we have debated the second budget of this Government since this response was tabled as well. In this second response at least the Government took the issue more seriously, rather than the all too familiar response of denying that any problems existed. Rhetoric is all very well, but it has to be matched with resources.

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