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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 7 Hansard (28 June) . . Page.. 2179 ..
MR QUINLAN
: Yes, but you have nothing to do.Mr Moore
: You can say a lot of things about the Chief Minister, but you cannot say she's got nothing to do.MR QUINLAN
: Please do not use those dodgy numbers. What you have, effectively, is overarching functions. Through the latter part of the 20th century organisations have realised that they should cut out layers and devolve responsibility. They should make people directly responsible for their areas of command so that they do a better job. Well, what have we got here? We have got the centralisation of resources. Out of the centralisation of resources, I think we can see a trickle of pap publications emerging. I hope it does not become a torrent. This government may not be very good at doing stuff, like building stadiums, developing Kinlyside, running hospitals or whatever-Mr Moore
: You should have been there for the Brumbies. It was brilliant. It's a brilliant stadium.MR QUINLAN
: I was there.Mr Moore
: Then you know it's a brilliant stadium. An excellent job.MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER
(Mr Hird): Order! Mr Quinlan has the call.MR QUINLAN
: I will diverge to the stadium, Mr Temporary Deputy Speaker, because it is typical of the Carnell approach, and that of her followers, to say the end justifies the means; like, "We have had the stadium full twice. That is it. It's worth all the money. It's worth all the breaking of the law. It's worth having to put through retrospective guidelines." The auditor still has not been able to sort out the mire after more than a year. After the teething problems, I think it is a pretty good stadium, but you could have had it built on a fixed price contract. You could have built it for less. I guarantee that if you could put together all the money that you have spent on the stadium, plus the money you had to put into Manuka Oval to pay off the disenfranchised sports followers, and started again you would have a whole lot better stadium. Just because it works does not justify the way you did it, and it does not necessarily justify the level of expenditure, seeing that we got the thing for nothing.Ms Carnell
: How do you know? Have you read the Auditor-General's report?MR QUINLAN
: No, I haven't.Ms Carnell
: Well, how do you know?MR QUINLAN
: I have no idea.Ms Carnell
: You have no idea. I agree.MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER
: Chief Minister, leave the poor lad alone. Leave the poor fellow alone.
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