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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 4 Hansard (7 May) . . Page.. 1076 ..

MS McRAE (continuing):

I distance myself entirely from the committee chair's additional comments. I applaud the report to the Assembly and look forward to the variation going through. I urge the Minister to put on more staff or do whatever he needs to do to accelerate the quite thorough process that he has begun. Finish it off so that we can end the debate on the abolition of the B1 zone well informed.

Debate (on motion by Mr Humphries) adjourned.

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make a short statement about the B1 guidelines and their tabling in this place.

Leave granted.

MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I advise the Assembly that I have in fact signed off the new B1 guidelines and it is my intention that they should be available for people living in the B1 area to see first. I understand that the proposed guidelines will be circulated the weekend after next. That is the first available date on which that can occur. I am hoping to make copies of the guidelines available to members in advance of that, on the strict understanding that they are for their attention only and that residents of that area ought to see them in their own letterboxes before they hear about them from politicians, see them in the hands of community organisations or whatever. That is the expected timeline for the guidelines.

MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, I wish to make a statement pursuant to standing order 246A and in accordance with the resolution of the Assembly of 20 February 1997. On 20 February 1997 the Standing Committee on Planning and Environment was asked by the Assembly to formulate formal terms of reference for an inquiry into John Dedman Parkway. Further, the Assembly asked the committee to announce these terms of reference, and the committee's reporting date, to the Assembly during the May sittings. The purpose of this statement is to advise members of the terms of reference that were adopted by the committee at our meeting on 6 May 1997.

In finalising the terms of reference, the committee took account of two key factors. The first factor is the text of the three Assembly resolutions on this matter. On 19 February this year the Assembly resolved:

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