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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 9 Hansard (4 September) . . Page.. 2916 ..

MS McRAE (continuing):

are to receive $235 per day in sitting fees. Why did the Chief Minister decide to triple the amount she informed this house that the board would cost? Why has the Chief Minister not made a statement in this house to correct the misleading information given in June last year?

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, during debates held on the Health and Community Care Services Bill 1996, in June, I think, of 1996, as Ms McRae said, there were approximate figures given for the remuneration of board members. In response to Mr Moore's request for information about the costs of the board, my department provided estimates based upon standard sitting fees as determined by the ACT Remuneration Tribunal. This was the department's assumption at the time before the legislation establishing the statutory authority was passed and prior to the public advertisements calling for nominations for the Health and Community Care Service Board.

Mr Berry: It was their fault.

MRS CARNELL: I would like to bring to your attention, though, as Mr Berry has already interjected, that Mr Berry, in those debates, was reported in Hansard - I think it is the Weekly Hansard of 25, 26 and 27 June 1996, at page 2335 - as saying that he considered what was proposed in relation to sitting fees as "rather puny for the responsibilities that these people would be required to take". So maybe we just paid attention to you, Mr Berry.

Mr Berry: We worried about you misleading. That is all.

MR SPEAKER: I name you, Mr Berry.

Motion (by Mr Humphries) put:

That Mr Berry be suspended from the service of the Assembly.

The Assembly voted -

	AYES, 10		NOES, 6

	Mrs Carnell	Mr Berry
	Mr Cornwell	Mr Corbell
	Mr Hird		Ms McRae
	Ms Horodny	Ms Reilly
	Mr Humphries	Mr Whitecross
	Mr Kaine	Mr Wood
	Mrs Littlewood
	Mr Moore
	Mr Stefaniak
	Ms Tucker

MR SPEAKER: Mr Berry, you are suspended for three sitting hours.

Mr Berry accordingly withdrew from the chamber.

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