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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1998 Week 10 Hansard (24 November) . . Page.. 2756 ..

MR CORBELL (continuing):

Mr Lilley answered for Mr Morgan. Mr Lilley, of course, is the Under Treasurer. He said:

The actual leases were brought in.

I asked:

How many leases?

Mr Lilley said:

Three.

I asked:

He provided you with three lease documents?

Mr Lilley said:

Yes.

I asked again:

He did?

Mr Lilley said:

Yes.

I asked again:

Are you sure?

Mr Lilley said:

Absolutely.

So, there is the first lot of evidence we got.

Moving on from that, we then discover that the Government did not actually see three lease documents, because following that exchange with Mr Lilley, I asked for copies of those documents and, of course, the Government could not substantiate that. The Government knew that it did not have three lease documents. So, we then got the answer back saying, "It wasn't actually three lease documents". There was a bit of argy-bargy in between, Mr Speaker, but let us cut to the chase and look at what happened when we called Mr Lilley back. We called Mr Lilley back in the second round of Estimates Committee hearings and asked Mr Lilley for an explanation of why he provided inaccurate advice at the first Estimates Committee hearing. Mr Lilley said:

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