Page 1130 - Week 03 - Thursday, 26 February 2009
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Proposed new clause 3A negatived.
Clause 4 agreed to.
Clause 5.
MR RATTENBURY (Molonglo) (5.01): I move amendment No 2 circulated in my name [see schedule 2 at page 1145.] As I indicated before, I will not be speaking to these additional amendments in any great length as I think I have articulated already the purpose of them.
MR SESELJA (Molonglo—Leader of the Opposition) (5.02): Just briefly, I have not spoken yet to these aspects, and I will speak to amendments 2 and 3 circulated by Mr Rattenbury. We will be opposing both of those amendments. We believe that having a cap is the right thing to do at this stage. We believe that moving to the second stage is the next thing to do, but we do not agree with removing the cap in this way. We want to support the cap at the moment so that it is clear what happens for households and for smaller generators. As we move to the next phase, as outlined, the government will do the analysis and we will look at that analysis. We will keep the pressure on the government to get this right and to balance the environmental and economic concerns that are at play here.
We want to see that work, but we do not believe that amendments 2 and 3 are the right way to go at this point. We believe that the cap is the right way to go. We should move forward on that basis and then move in a considered way to the next phase. We will not be supporting amendments 2 and 3.
Amendment negatived.
Clause 5 agreed to.
Clauses 6 to 9, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Clause 10.
MR RATTENBURY (Molonglo) (5.04): I move amendment No 3 circulated in my name [see schedule 2 at page 1146].
Amendment negatived.
Clause 10 agreed to.
Proposed new clauses 10A, 10B and 10C.
MR RATTENBURY (Molonglo) (5.05), by leave: I move amendments Nos 4 to 6 circulated in my name on the green paper [see schedule 2 at page1146].
I have foreshadowed the content of a couple of these amendments already, but I will just provide some brief explanation as to the intent of them. The first, proposed new
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