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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 9 Hansard (4 September) . . Page.. 3045 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to move a motion to suspend so much of standing orders as would prevent order of the day No. 11, Executive business, from being called on.

Leave not granted.

Motion (by Mr Humphries) proposed:

That the Assembly do now adjourn.

MR SPEAKER: I wish to inform the Assembly that one of our long-serving attendants, Mr Alf Turner, is leaving the Assembly tomorrow. Alf has been with the Assembly for six years, having joined the secretariat in November 1991 as a sessional attendant. Alf has had an important and sometimes hectic job coordinating the attendant services in the chamber, and I am told he particularly dreads budget days, days when 20 or so Bills are due to be presented, and days when annual reports are presented. On behalf of all members, I thank Alf for his service over the last few years. I wish him all the best in the future, and no more budget days.

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (11.27): Mr Speaker, before we rise, I wish to draw the Assembly's attention to question on notice No. 462 asked of me today by Ms McRae. The question asked for details of every development application lodged in 1995, 1996 and 1997; the success or otherwise of those development applications; the length of time each took to process from lodgment to completion; and a brief description of each application.

I am advised, Mr Speaker, that my department dealt with 960 development applications in 1995, 853 in 1996, and 518 so far this year. The resources which would be required to provide the information requested by Ms McRae for each of those 2,331 development applications is, in my view, an entirely inappropriate use of resources and, in my view, cannot be justified. I can say that in 1995 the average time for completion of each application was 57 working days. In 1996 the period was 38.6 working days.

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