Page 1286 - Week 04 - Thursday, 7 April 2016
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Trade unions—memorandum of understanding
MRS JONES: Madam Speaker, my question is to the Minister for Corrections. Has any information related to corrections tenders through CSD been referred to UnionsACT under the memorandum of understanding between the ACT government and UnionsACT—or to the JACS department?
MR RATTENBURY: As we discussed yesterday, we know, of course, that the MOU is in place; we went through, yesterday, how that works. The Chief Minister has undertaken to provide that information in detail.
In terms of whether specific information has been provided, I will need to check that specifically. However, we know that under the MOU the ACT government provides unions with a list of tenderers which is the same as provided to the ACT Long Service Leave Authority and the ACT Environment Protection Authority and is publicly available.
Having recently undertaken a—
Mrs Jones: Point of order, please.
MADAM SPEAKER: Point of order, Mrs Jones.
Mrs Jones: I know the minister is giving us a good background on what was discussed yesterday, but the question I am asking is about whether tenders or information relating to corrections tenders through CSD or JACS have been referred to UnionsACT. We understand the process; what we are asking about is whether specific matters have occurred or not.
MADAM SPEAKER: The point of order is?
Mrs Jones: Relevance.
MADAM SPEAKER: In relation to the standing orders, it is clear that it has been agreed here that we should be directly relevant. However, I think that the minister said that he would look into that and I think that he was giving more information. Do you have anything more to say, Mr Rattenbury?
MR RATTENBURY: No; I will pass, thank you, Madam Speaker.
MADAM SPEAKER: A supplementary question, Mrs Jones.
MRS JONES: Minister, has the memorandum of understanding resulted in some tenderers being ruled out from the corrections tender process—or will you pass on that, too?
MR RATTENBURY: The reason I chose to pass before is because I was actually in the middle of relaying some information about the recent capital upgrades at the AMC, which are presumably what Mrs Jones was asking about. But she could not help herself and she needed to take a point of order. So why should I bother? In terms of—
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