Page 261 - Week 01 - Thursday, 27 February 2014
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It is disappointing to hear Mr Smyth make dismissive comments about all of those submissions from all of those witnesses—“Oh, yeah, just read the transcripts. They’re not really that important. Just go to the web page and have a read of them. We don’t need to put them in a report.” It is shameful, mean and nasty Liberal Party representation on those committees.
I cannot believe you cannot actually reach some sort of agreement, some sort of compromise or consensus, as Mr Rattenbury has suggested. I have come from an environment where I have had to negotiate under some pretty extraordinarily difficult circumstances with meaner and nastier people than even you, Mr Smyth, and I have been able to reach an agreement—
MADAM SPEAKER: Ms Berry, would you like to withdraw that?
MS BERRY: Yes, I withdraw.
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you.
MS BERRY: I will take people for a moment to comments of the Liberal Party members on the submissions that were made during the committee hearings. We had five cents worth from Mr Wall on the actual submissions and we had pretty much nothing from Mr Smyth. Those Liberal Party members might want to consider writing an apology to each and every single person who appeared before that committee and spent all of their time coming in here and talking about things that were important to them and their communities as part of this region. Next time you go down to the coast you might want to put a black mark on your cars so people can identify you as the people on the committee who do not care about our region because you could not come to an agreement about reporting on moving this region forward, having a plan and having an idea that actually makes a difference to people.
It is shameful behaviour and I am absolutely disgusted that we could not reach an agreement. It is clear that by hiding behind the politics of committees the Liberals have absolutely no plans for this region and no plans for the city.
I am considering reading that list again so that you can write down the names of all the people you should apologise to for being so dismissive and so disrespectful. It is outrageous behaviour and I am absolutely disgusted that you could not come to agreement on the regional development committee. It was not even an annual reports hearing. It was a committee outside of the government’s annual reports hearings.
Mr Smyth, you are always so proud of talking about, “That time at band camp when Kate Carnell and I …” Band camp is finished; we have moved on from there and it is time to develop a plan that actually works for this region and works for this city.
I was very happy to hear, Chief Minister, how happy the mayors of the region were to have the ACT government as a member of SEROC and have the ACT government represented in the region. They were very happy that you were—
Mr Wall: Point of order.
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