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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 6 Hansard (23 May) . . Page.. 1566 ..

MR HIRD (continuing):

We have 11 inquiries under way at this time. These include the final draft management plan for the lower Molonglo River corridor, the Tuggeranong lakeshore master plan, proposals for rural residential development and the aforementioned inquiry into the proposals for the Gungahlin Drive extension, known also as the John Dedman Parkway.

The committee performs a type of local government role in relation to many of the issues under the control of the Department of Urban Services. This reflects the fact that the territory's parliament and the government have responsibility for both state and local government roles.

Members try hard to produce unanimous reports, as that makes the view of the committee very plain to this place. However, there are occasions when it is not possible to agree on the recommendations of the report. In these cases, the committee uses one of two ways to express this disagreement. One way is by dissent, which was used by my colleague Mr Corbell, as is his right, in three reports during the year. The second way is to make plain in the body of the report that one member has a contrary view to his colleagues but is not formally dissenting from the entire report, which was used on two occasions.

We could not have achieved what we have without the input of the Canberra community. On behalf of my committee colleagues, I offer our sincere thanks to all the organisations and individuals who have provided information and submissions to the committee and who have appeared before the committee at public hearings.

The system is all about finding out as much as we can and providing a report to the parliament based on the information. We cannot do that without the Canberra community's indulgence.

Mr Speaker, our thanks also go to the committee's hardworking and extraordinarily efficient secretary, Mr Rod Power. I believe that the report makes good reading and I commend it to the parliament.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

MR HIRD (11.44): Mr Speaker, I present Report No 50 of the Standing Committee on Planning and Urban Services, entitled Draft variation (No 144) to the Territory Plan relating to the Molonglo River corridor: the Defence Force Co-located Staff Colleges site including other land within this area of Weston Creek, together with a copy of the extracts of the minutes of proceedings. The report was provided to you, sir, for circulation, printing and publication on Monday, 22 May 2000, pursuant to the resolution of appointment. I move:

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