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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 3 Hansard (10 April) . . Page.. 889 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):

A corrigendum to the Government's response to Report No. 18 of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts entitled "Review of the Auditor-General's Report Number 2, 1996 - Taxi Plate Auction".

Determination No. 12, including a statement, pursuant to section 12 of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1995, relating to Part-Time Holders of Public Offices.

MR KAINE (Minister for Urban Services): Mr Speaker, for the information of members and pursuant to subsection 9(2) of the Territory Owned Corporations Act 1990, I present the Statement of Share Transfers for ACTEW Corporation Ltd, ACTTAB Ltd and Totalcare Industries Ltd. I ask for leave to make a short statement.

Leave granted.

MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, share transfers in relation to ACTEW Corporation Ltd, ACTTAB Ltd and Totalcare Industries Ltd have resulted from the recent resignation of Mr Tony De Domenico from this Assembly and the retirement of Mr John Turner from the position of chief executive of the Department of Urban Services. As the Minister for Urban Services, I have acquired one voting share in each of these Territory-owned corporations, and Mr Gilmour, as the new chief executive of Urban Services, has acquired one non-voting share in each. Under subsection 9(2) of the Territory Owned Corporations Act 1990, any change in shareholders for a Territory-owned corporation is required to be tabled within 15 sitting days of it occurring.

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (3.33): Mr Speaker, I ask for leave of the Assembly to make a very short ministerial statement on the Commissioner for the Environment's investigation into the use of weed and pest chemicals.

Leave granted.

MR HUMPHRIES: I thank members, because I did not give them much notice of this. Mr Speaker, members will recall that on 5 September 1996 I informed this Assembly about the steps the Government had taken to progress a public investigation by the Commissioner for the Environment into the use of weed and pest control chemicals in the ACT. In relation to the conduct of the investigation, the commissioner subsequently advised me that, while there appeared to be considerable community interest in it, he was not exactly swamped by public submissions. He therefore undertook a further round of consultation which expired on 18 March 1997.

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