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Linkages to the Assembly will be reconsidered as the design of the building progresses and the cost of such an option is assessed against the alternative final design options.
Mr Speaker, I will have to look through the government’s response in much more detail. No doubt, we will be debating it cognately over the coming days. But it does go to the point that this Chief Minister says one thing, but at one of the really good early opportunities to confirm that she actually believes in that principle of openness and accountability, the Chief Minister falters.
These are in the main very simple recommendations. You only need to go to the tabling speech. She states that 78 of the recommendations are noted. That is the easy way out—to say, “We note that you have said something. I will have to go to the detail of that because we have only just received the report. It is very hard to speak quickly to it all.”
In closing, the fact is that there are recommendations that are either noted or not agreed. The majority of the committee—it was not the majority; it was a unanimous report—recommended that the government take these options on board. So here we have that dilemma for the Chief Minister. She will say one thing—that she will be more open and more accountable and here is the new era—but when you come to a great opportunity for the Chief Minister to prove that, what we find is that she is not up to the job in that regard.
We will all read this response no doubt with great interest. I am sure it will be referred to over the coming days. I wish members well in the upcoming budget debate. But again, if you are looking for openness and accountability in the government’s response to the report of the Select Committee on Estimates 2011-2012, you will be sorely disappointed.
MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Attorney-General, Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development, Minister for Territory and Municipal Services and Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (10.25): I move:
That the debate be adjourned.
Mr Hanson: Oh!
MR CORBELL: It is coming up for cognate debate later today, Jeremy—cognate with the budget debate later.
Question put:
That debate be adjourned.
The Assembly voted—
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