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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 7 Hansard (24 June) . . Page.. 2032 ..

Mrs Carnell: Have you had any complaints?

MR CORBELL: The numbers speak for themselves, Chief Minister - 10,000 versus 400.

MR SPEAKER: Order! Stop responding to interjections, Mr Corbell.

MR CORBELL: I think that is a pretty clear argument. If they were just getting up to speed, you would think that was okay; but it is halfway through the year and their contract finishes in January next year. I do not know what is going on here, but it seems to me that the Government's blind pursuit of contracting out this service has actually denied a very large number of people use of the service. The figures speak for themselves. These points demonstrate that this Government is not really serious about business. It likes to have a lot of hype and it likes to have a lot of photo opportunities, but it is not addressing the fundamental concerns of businesses in the Territory. It is not dealing with those concerns. Instead, it is locked into a blind ideological approach on this issue and it is just not delivering results.

Proposed expenditure agreed to.

Debate (on motion by Mr Hird) adjourned.

MR HIRD: Mr Speaker, with the indulgence of colleagues, I seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard the itinerary for the visit to Christchurch, New Zealand, by the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Tourism. I made a statement on that visit earlier this day.

Leave granted.

Document incorporated at Appendix 2.

Motion (by Mr Humphries) agreed to:

That the Assembly do now adjourn.

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