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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1998 Week 11 Hansard (10 December) . . Page.. 3513 ..

MR MOORE (continuing):

ADFACT has also entered into a contract with Dr Mugford for $19,000. This contract provides for Dr Mugford's assistance in conducting a service review as recommended by the Community and Health Services Complaints Commissioner.

When I spoke to the officer involved I asked, "Why was it that ADFACT entered into this contract with Dr Mugford?". He replied to me that it was on the recommendation of the Department of Health and Community Care that ADFACT employ Dr Mugford as a consultant that the department provided the $19,000 to Karralika to employ Dr Mugford and that the department also looked at the contract in its draft form and approved it.

At the end of this sitting year it behoves us, particularly when a series of questions have been answered openly and fully, to think about what we are doing and how it affects people's businesses when questions are asked in this place to score political points because I happen to know, and happen to have stood for election with, two people in previous times. Everybody here has stood with other people. We know former Labor Party members of this Assembly who are in very prominent positions within the ACT. There will always be a possibility of gaining political mileage by attacking those people.

It seems to me that we ought to think very carefully about the way we deal with people. There will be times when it is necessary, but it is often possible to sort out what the problem is first. If there is still a problem of inappropriate behaviour, it can then be raised in the chamber. In this case there has been no inappropriate behaviour at all and it ought not to be implied or imputed.

MR BERRY: I seek leave to make - - -

Mr Moore: No.

MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER (Mr Hird): Order! If I could give you some advice, Mr Berry, you may wish to do that in the adjournment debate.

Mr Moore: You asked a question earlier. I took it on notice and I gave you an answer.

MR BERRY: You got leave to make a statement.

MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: You can seek leave if you want to.

MR BERRY: I seek leave.

Leave granted.

MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, it would have helped if Mr Moore had been able to make that sort of fulsome response in the Estimates Committee process and in his subsequent response to the Estimates Committee report.

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