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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 5 Hansard (9 May) . . Page.. 1284 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):

Your supplementary question presumably was about the first part of the question and the first part of the question was about advice to me. The commission as a whole has not been involved in advice to me. I drew a link between those two matters, Mr Speaker. If Ms Tucker wants me to get advice from the commission, then I am happy to approach the commission and ask them to give me minutes of any meetings they have had which have touched on this subject and, if they have no objection to that, to table them in the Assembly. I am not sure whether it is a good idea to be tabling in the Assembly minutes of meetings of statutory corporations; but, if that is what Ms Tucker wants, I am happy to consider at least doing that.

MR CORBELL: My question is to the Minister for Urban Services. Minister, have you or has any member of your staff contacted the president of the Gungahlin Community Council following his appearance before the Legislative Assembly standing committee inquiry into the John Dedman Parkway on 5 May, last Friday?

MR SMYTH: Mr Speaker, my senior adviser had contact with Mr Gower on Friday. In fact, I have spoken with him-I think on Monday morning.

MR CORBELL: Mr Speaker, I have a supplementary question. Minister, did you or your senior adviser seek to have the president of the community council issue a statement in relation to his evidence to the urban services committee last Friday?

MR SMYTH: Mr Speaker, I am happy to read the Gungahlin Community Council's statement Into the record of this place because it is very important.

Mr Corbell: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker. I asked the minister if he sought the president to make this statement.

Ms Carnell: The minister can answer the question.

Mr Humphries: He has heard your question and he wants to answer it.

MR SPEAKER: Just a moment, please.

MR SMYTH: Mr Speaker, I was in Melbourne on Friday and returned to find all sorts of allegations being floated about myself in the press, raised by Mr Corbell and Ms Tucker. The important thing is that the Gungahlin Community Council felt outraged at what was done and the way that their words were twisted and they have issued a statement.

Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, I take a point of order. That was not the supplementary question asked. The minister should answer it or sit down.

MR SPEAKER: Just a moment, please, Mr Berry. I am just taking advice from the Clerk.

Mr Humphries: Mr Smyth was asked about a statement, Mr Speaker.

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