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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 7 Hansard (6 June) . . Page.. 1998 ..

Mr Corbell: We will release over 3,000 dwelling sites. You only proposed to release 2,200 dwelling sites.

MR HUMPHRIES: I am sorry, that is just not true. I think we will have to come back to that.

MR SPEAKER: Mr Corbell, I ask you to maintain order and I ask you, Mr Humphries, not to respond to his interjections. That is equally out of order.

MR HUMPHRIES: If he does not interject, Mr Speaker, I will not have to respond.

There are serious questions about the way this is going to work. I have serious questions. Everyone else on this side of the chamber has serious questions. I hope the crossbenchers have serious questions about how this is going to work. I know members of the public have serious questions. A joint inquiry by the Planning and Environment Committee and the Public Accounts Committee of this Assembly is the most appropriate way of answering those questions.

Mr Corbell suggests that the estimates committee is a perfectly acceptable alternative. I am sure that the estimates committee will get the usual one or two days access to each of the ministers provided to it. I do not see any contradiction from Mr Corbell, who has been happy to interject quite readily up till now. He has found something to write about all of a sudden. Are you telling us that one or two days is going to be sufficient for the estimates committee to find out the story with land development in this territory? I do not think so.

I repeat that in the history of self-government there is no single issue which involves so much money and so much potential for loss as land development. The taxpayers of this territory have already lost tens of millions of dollars through wrong decisions on land development.

Mr Corbell: This is from the man who presided over the Bruce stadium fiasco.

MR HUMPHRIES: I was subject to scrutiny on the Bruce stadium, as was the rest of the Liberal government in this place. What scrutiny are you proposing, Mr Corbell? As I recall, there was a select committee on the Bruce stadium. There was a committee specifically for the purpose of looking at that matter. Why not have a discrete inquiry into this matter?

Mr Corbell: After your government had started implementing its proposals.

MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, you argued about interjections-

MR SPEAKER: If you respond to them, it becomes a conversation. Order! Mr Corbell will discontinue the interjections and Mr Humphries-

MR HUMPHRIES: I will cease to respond to them.

MR SPEAKER: And you will cease to respond to them.

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