Page 1290 - Week 04 - Thursday, 7 April 2016
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MR BARR: and that it might also consider withholding a portion of final payment pending health and safety outcomes on a site.
Mrs Jones interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Mrs Jones, I called you to order.
MR BARR: The inquiry panel would be particularly happy to see the ACT community, alongside unions, reporting more to government about—
Mr Hanson: Point of order.
MADAM SPEAKER: Point of order. Sit down, Mr Barr. Could you stop the clock, please.
Mr Hanson: My understanding, on relevance, was that it was a question about the MOU, which was first signed in 2005, and the reasons for the MOU. I do not understand the relevance of a document that was then released in 2012, 2011, to a document and the rationale asked behind the MOU that was signed some five or six years prior. I therefore do not understand the relevance of talking about a document that is six years after the signing of the original MOU.
MADAM SPEAKER: The question from Ms Burch was about the benefits of the MOU, but I do uphold the point of order and ask the Chief Minister to be directly relevant to the question.
MR BARR: The benefits are for the health and safety of workers who undertake work on ACT government projects. The inquiry panel said:
The Inquiry Panel would be particularly happy to see the ACT community, alongside the unions, reporting more to Government about bad health and safety practice in the industry. It is only with a concerted effort on all fronts that the climate will be sufficiently robust to weed out bad companies and individuals that should not be operating in it.
MADAM SPEAKER: A supplementary question, Mr Wall.
Mr Hanson interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Come to order, Mr Hanson, so I can hear Mr Wall.
MR WALL: Chief Minister, was there a pro forma or standardised method for reporting the details of potential prequalifying tenderers to UnionsACT?
MR BARR: Yes, I think Mr Rattenbury alluded to that earlier in that the information in relation to prequalification is exactly the same list as is provided to the ACT Environment Protection Authority and the Long Service Leave Authority. It is the same list that is publicly available on the procurement website. So anyone who has an interest can go in and get that information as to who is prequalified and who is not.
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