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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 11 Hansard (4 November) . . Page.. 3582 ..

MR KAINE (continuing):

at a reasonable price. I think that either you are in it at the time and you say your piece or you stay out of it and you abdicate the right to say your piece. It is not good enough to come along later and say, "The process is defective". In this case, Mr Speaker, I suspect that the process has been defective only because the member has chosen not to involve himself in it at the time.

There are other aspects of all of this. There is water, there is gas, there is the road reconstruction system - all of which are part of the reform program. I submit that my comments in connection with the competition policy in particular, and electricity supply in a more general way, apply equally to all those areas. If Mr Osborne wants to be involved, he can and will be carefully briefed, if he chooses to be briefed. His input is always welcome - but at the time, not a year-and-a-half later.

MR SPEAKER: The time for the discussion has now expired.

Clause 1

Debate resumed.

Clause agreed to.

Clauses 2 to 14, by leave, taken together, and agreed to.

Clause 15

MR STEFANIAK (Minister for Education and Training) (5.44): I seek leave to move together two amendments circulated in my name.

Leave granted.

MR STEFANIAK: Mr Speaker, I move:

Page 8, line 22, paragraphs (e) and (f), omit the paragraphs, substitute the following paragraph:

"(e) by omitting subsections (3) and (4) and substituting the following subsection:

`(3) A Statute is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 10 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989.' ".

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