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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 2 Hansard (2 March) . . Page.. 531 ..

Mr Stanhope: The expenditure was illegal.

Ms Carnell: We dispute that there was illegal expenditure. It simply was not. Therefore, a comment that it was is an imputation; it is that simple. I would ask for it to be reworded.

MR SPEAKER: Is there a supplementary question?

Ms Carnell: Mr Speaker, we just need the word - - -

MR SPEAKER: You have answered it.

Ms Carnell: No, I have not. I just need to have the question reworded.

MR SPEAKER: Are you asking for it to be?

Ms Carnell: Yes.

MR WOOD: I think there is a fair deal of standover stuff happening today and I do not think the Assembly will appreciate that. I thought that there was legal advice that the expenditure was illegal. But I do want an answer. I know how difficult it is to get answers, but I do want an answer, so I will ask the question again. I have not withdrawn anything. Have all bills for the redevelopment of Bruce Stadium now been paid by the Government? Were all those bills covered by the supplementary appropriation the Government sought from the Assembly last year? There is no withdrawal anywhere.

MS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, as long as Mr Wood is willing to withdraw comments about illegal expenditure, I am quite comfortable.

Mr Berry: He does not have to withdraw it and he did not.

MS CARNELL: He does because it is not - - -

MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Wood read out his question. The comments were not part of the question. I cannot see an imputation in the question, Chief Minister.

MS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, in the last wording of it that Mr Wood read out he did not use those words, and I am quite comfortable with that - - -

Mr Corbell: Aren't we sensitive today! Your own legal advisers said that it was illegal.

MR SPEAKER: Order! Do you not want to hear the answer? Please be quiet, otherwise I will sit the Chief Minister down.

Mr Corbell: The Government's legal advisers said that it was an illegal transaction.

MR SPEAKER: I think your colleague might like to get an answer, Mr Corbell, and I would suggest therefore that you be quiet.

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