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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 4 Hansard (29 March) . . Page.. 1031 ..
MR SPEAKER: Order, please! If you want detailed information, put the question on the notice paper.
MS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, they know what the statement of intent says because I gave it to them and we gave them the Access Economics report. Also, the Impulse Airlines people came and ran through the business case with them. The fact is that all of the information has been made available to those opposite. The number of jobs is significant - over 1,100 indirect and direct jobs over the first five years and, I think, over 1,700 indirect and direct jobs by the end of 10 years. But this is not about whether it is 360, 370 or 380 jobs. This is about a significant boost, as the Transport Workers Union says, to the ACT economy. It will be a significant boost because they are committed to a new base which will incorporate a heavy maintenance facility for the new Boeing 717s and the Beech 1900D aircraft, ground support facilities, administration functions and, in a couple of years, a reservations call centre. If those opposite do not want that, go for it. They should vote against the motion if they do not support it. We would prefer they did not, but it is in the hands of the Assembly, Mr Speaker, and all of the information is on the table.
MR SPEAKER: Do you have a supplementary question, Mr Stanhope?
MR STANHOPE: Yes, Mr Speaker. That was an amazing performance. I should say, Mr Speaker, that the Chief Minister did misrepresent me there. She actually suggested that I had not - - -
MR SPEAKER: Mr Stanhope, ask your supplementary question, please. If you wish to make a personal explanation, you can do so at the end of question time.
MR STANHOPE: I will do that because the Chief Minister has just suggested that I did not turn up for a meeting with Impulse Airlines.
MR SPEAKER: Just the supplementary question, please, at this point.
MR STANHOPE: I do not know who told her that. I can only wonder who told her that.
MR SPEAKER: Do you want me to sit you down or do you want to ask the supplementary question?
MR STANHOPE
: My supplementary question, Mr Speaker, is that yesterday the Chief Minister, in answer to a question from Ms Tucker, bemoaned the fact that the Dutch auction style of business incentive currently besets Australian governments. I sympathise with her on that. Was her determination not to get involved in any Dutch auction the reason for agreeing to Impulse's request for $8m or was it merely a trump card designed to stop the bidding? Can the Chief Minister confirm the suggestion made
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