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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 7 Hansard (30 June) . . Page.. 1913 ..
MS CARNELL (continuing):
Mr Speaker the Government hopes that we can continue these improvements in the compilation of future Quarterly Capital Works Reports.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
MS CARNELL (Chief Minister and Treasurer): Mr Speaker, I present, for the information of members, the ACT Government workforce statistical report for the third quarter of 1998-99, and I ask for leave to make a very short statement
Leave granted.
MS CARNELL: I am tabling for the information of members the workforce statistical report for the third quarter of the 1998-99 financial year. It shows that the total number of staff in the ACT government work force at the end of March 1999 was 18,220.
Final Report - Government Response
MS CARNELL (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (11.09): Mr Speaker, for the information of members, I present the Government's response to the Select Committee on Gambling's final report, entitled "The Social and Economic Impacts of Gambling in the ACT", which was presented to the Assembly on 25 March 1999. I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
I ask for leave for my speech to be incorporated in Hansard.
Leave granted.
The speech read as follows:
Mister Speaker, in May 1998, over twelve months ago, this Assembly resolved to establish the Select Committee on Gambling to undertake an inquiry into the social and economic impacts of gambling in the ACT.
The resolution of appointment of the Select Committee into Gambling was to "inquire into and report by the 25th March 1999 on the social and economic impacts of gambling in the ACT, with particular reference to poker machines and the report entitled Gambling and related legislation in the ACT: a National Competition Policy review prepared by the Allen Consulting Group."
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