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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 3 Hansard (8 April) . . Page.. 675 ..

MR KAINE (continuing):

I am proposing an amendment, which I have circulated, to Ms Tucker's amendment that deletes her paragraph (b) and inserts:

(b) cause a copy of the statement to be laid before the Legislative Assembly with the next report given to him or her under subsection 18(1).

That is, with each quarterly report, currently obligatory under the Bill, we will table the details of all the joint ventures and agreements entered into in the previous quarter. That gives the Assembly full accountability. It allows it to debate all or any of the arrangements the body has entered into in the preceding quarter. I formally move as an amendment to Ms Tucker's amendment:

Omit proposed paragraph (b), substitute:

"(b) cause a copy of the statement to be laid before the Legislative Assembly with the next report given to him or her under subsection 28(1).".

MR CORBELL (12.19): Mr Speaker, I had some considerable discussion with officers of the Minister's department and my colleagues as to the most appropriate course of action in relation to this amendment. After much consideration, we have decided that the Government's proposal is the acceptable one, in that it does allow for accountability and report back to the Assembly. For that reason, we will be supporting it. Fifteen days does seem to be an onerous requirement on the officers of Canberra Tourism, and for that reason we would be happy to support a quarterly report to the Assembly.

MS TUCKER (12.20): Mr Speaker, may I clarify something. We have 15 sitting days. I need to clarify whether that is going to be a longer period than a quarterly report. I want to clarify what Mr Kaine's proposal is. Is it for a quarterly report, Mr Kaine? Did you mean by that that it would be in a quarterly report?

MR KAINE (Minister for Urban Services and Minister for Tourism) (12.21): Mr Speaker, what my amendment does is to change Ms Tucker's amendment so that, instead of requiring each one of these things to be reported to the Assembly within 15 sitting days, they will be consolidated and there will be one report to the Assembly every quarter, which will include the details of all partnerships and joint ventures entered into in the preceding quarter.

Ms Tucker: We will support that.

Amendment (Mr Kaine's) to Ms Tucker's amendment agreed to.

Amendment (Ms Tucker's), as amended, agreed to.

Clause, as amended, agreed to.

Clauses 8 to 22, by leave, taken together, and agreed to.

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