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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 7 Hansard (1 July) . . Page.. 2069 ..

MR QUINLAN (continuing):

(c) two Members to be nominated by either the Independent Members or the ACT Greens;

to be notified in writing to the Speaker by 8.00 p.m. on Thursday, 1 July 1999.

(3) the Committee report by the first sitting day in November 1999;

(4) on the Committee presenting its report to the Assembly resumption of debate on the question "That the Appropriation (Bruce Stadium and CanDeliver Limited) Bill 1999 be agreed to in principle" be set down as an order of the day for the next sitting;

(5) the foregoing provisions of this resolution have effect notwithstanding anything contained in the standing orders.

We have been presented with amendments to the Appropriation Bill 1999-2000 plus the Appropriation (Bruce Stadium and CanDeliver Limited) Bill 1999. I would wish that a select committee on appropriations be appointed to examine the Appropriations (Bruce Stadium and CanDeliver Limited) Bill 1999 and any expenditure proposals in the amendments to the Appropriation Bill 1999-2000 and any related matter. The reason for doing so is that I would wish to understand a lot more about what is going on now with the latest numbers. To support what I am saying, let me first point out that the Bill retrospectively amends appropriations going back to 1997-98 - - -

Ms Carnell: Because that is what the Assembly asked us to do.

MR QUINLAN: I did not ask for that. It goes back to 1997-98 and covers 1998-99 as well, to a total of $24,032,902.81. Taken together with the previous appropriations for those years of $12.3m, we get a total appropriation of $36,332,902.81. If you look at the amendments to the Appropriation Bill you will see amendments to cover the same funds. We have a Bill that is going to amend prior appropriations to cover prior expenditure and we have amendments to a current Bill to appropriate the same money, largely, only, unfortunately, it is more, largely. In fact, if you tot up the changes to the Appropriation Bill, you will come up with an excess - the Government appears to be introducing new appropriation at this point in time - of $2.5m plus a bit of change, $338.19. You will have to forgive me - - -

Mr Moore: Of course we won't forgive you.

MR QUINLAN: Give it your best shot. You will have to forgive me but, first of all, I cannot assimilate why we have a Bill to amend past Appropriation Bills, to cover past expenditure, and then we have - - -

Mr Moore: Because we are responsive to the Assembly.

MR QUINLAN: Some of the Assembly, by the look of it. Before I sign on to this proposal, given the events of yesterday, given that it appears that the get-out clause was "the Chief Minister did not know" - - -

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