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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 7 Hansard (28 June) . . Page.. 2137 ..
MS CARNELL
(continuing):Mr Speaker, thousands of transactions are done by any government, certainly this government, every single day. If a middle-range public servant makes a mistake, is that a hanging offence? The reality is that what you have to do is to put in place a process to ensure that it does not happen again. That is exactly what was done. A full review of the Central Financing Unit, the CFU, and the way we handle those sorts of transactions was carried out at the time and processes are in place, and have been in place for quite a long period, to ensure that those sorts of administrative slip-ups do not happen in the future. But I need to make it clear again that there was no indication at all that the people involved in the transaction did anything that they believed was incorrect.
MR QUINLAN
: Thousands of transactions! We must have a busy little cabinet if they all go to cabinet.Ms Carnell
: They don't all go to cabinet.MR QUINLAN: They don't?
MR SPEAKER
: Order! There will be no preamble. Ask your supplementary question, please.MR QUINLAN
: My supplementary would then be: what was so unique about these transactions that they did go to cabinet and whether there was any qualification to the advice that cabinet received?MS CARNELL
: Mr Speaker, asking for the advice to cabinet, I would suggest, is not just a little bit out of order but dramatically out of order.MR SPEAKER
: Yes, I do not think you can answer that.MR HIRD: Mr Speaker, my question is to the Minister for Urban Services, Mr Smyth. I refer to comments made by Mr Hargreaves in a media statement of 9 June last about the introduction of speed cameras. Mr Hargreaves said in that media release:
Why the Minister can't be honest and say that his own figures show that it has not been successful as a road safety program and is only a good little revenue earner, I don't know.
Minister, can you please inform the parliament what the results have been in the first six months of the introduction of speed cameras? Has the introduction of the cameras so far proved to be successful as part of the government's road safety programs and strategies?
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