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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 11 Hansard (29 November) . . Page.. 3389 ..
MR STEFANIAK (continuing):
So it is a combination of intelligence-led policing to smash those big rings and picking up drug dealers when and where they can be located. I think the last bust that I mentioned has had a significant effect on the supply of heroin in our city.
Mr Humphries: Mr Speaker, I ask that further questions be placed on the notice paper.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, yesterday Ms Tucker asked for an explanation under standing order 118A about the non-answer of an earlier question taken on notice. I apologise to Ms Tucker for not having provided that answer earlier. I can indicate now the answer to her question. It was about a reference in an advertisement for applications for an interactive gaming licence to direct people towards Ernst & Young in Brisbane.
Mr Speaker, I can advise the Assembly that Ernst & Young was the successful tenderer in obtaining a contract for drawing up and developing the interactive gambling application assessment procedures and evaluating the interactive gambling proposals that were received under that process. The reference to contacting Ernst & Young in Brisbane is not a reference to people to do business with Ernst & Young so that they can help them, at a fee, to make their application. Rather it was to contact Ernst & Young to be able to obtain a generic performance document to assist the applicant with their application.
Ernst & Young, of course, cannot attract any business in that process because of a conflict of interest as they are all ready contracted to the ACT government to assist with the evaluation of those bids. It would be inappropriate for them to assist people to make a bid as well as to evaluate it. So the reference is only to obtain information from those people because they drew up the original documentation that provides for applications to be made for an interactive gambling licence.
MR SMYTH: Mr Speaker, I have some more information in reply to the question that Mr Corbell asked earlier. Mr Corbell quoted from a document. He quoted the words "Attached is the result of our field inspections of the blocks identified by IAM for possible sale for residential or other purposes". What Mr Corbell failed to do was read the next paragraph which says:
The blocks highlighted in green have stormwater drainage requirements or constraints. All blocks marked as being overland flowpaths, channels, floodways or retarding basins must be reserved for drainage purposes. The blocks marked having an underground pipe will require an easement over the pipe if it is considered suitable for sale.
What he failed to mention was that this was a letter dated 26 May 2000. Since then the Chief Minister made his statement saying that we will not be developing designated urban open space. Yet again, we heard just half the story from Mr Corbell, for his own purpose.
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