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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 8 Hansard (24 August) . . Page.. 2314 ..

REMUNERATION TRIBUNAL

Determinations

MR HUMPHRIES (Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety): For the information of members, I present determinations Nos 46 and 47, including a statement, pursuant to section 12 of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1995, relating to chief executives and executives and to full-time holders of public offices.

DEPARTMENTAL PERFORMANCE REPORTS

Papers

MR HUMPHRIES (Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety): I present the June 1998-99 quarterly departmental performance reports, pursuant to section 25A of the Financial Management Act 1996, for the Chief Minister's Department, the Department of Education and Community Services, the Department of Health and Community Care, the Department of Justice and Community Safety and the Department of Urban Services. With the exception of the Department of Justice and Community Safety and the Department of Urban Services, the quarterly performance reports were circulated to members when the Assembly was not sitting.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO MEMBERS

Motion (by Mr Humphries ) agreed to:

That leave of absence from 14 August to 26 August 1999 (inclusive) be given to Mr Stefaniak (Minister for Education) and Mr Rugendyke.

JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY SAFETY - STANDING COMMITTEE

Reference - Government Response to Recommendations of Coronial Inquiry

MR HUMPHRIES (Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety) (4.15): For the information of members, I present the Government's response to the recommendations of Coroner Somes in the inquest into the death of Mark Watson. Pursuant to standing order 214, I move:

That the response to recommendations (1) and (3) of Coroner Somes in the inquest into the death of Mark Watson be referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety for inquiry and report by the last sitting day of June 2000.

Members will be aware of the circumstances surrounding the death and the inquest that was subsequently held into it. Members might also be aware that His Worship the coroner recommended that two particular matters be referred to an inquiry, which he suggested should be an inquiry by a standing committee of the Legislative Assembly.

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