Page 3533 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 18 September 2019
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MR RAMSAY: The matter of the age of criminal responsibility is currently subject to conversations across the various jurisdictions as part of the Council of Attorneys-General. On 23 November last year the Council of Attorneys-General agreed to establish a working group to look at this matter and to report back within 12 months. My Justice and Community Safety Directorate is working with officials from across Australia on this matter and I anticipate that there will be a report back to the Council of Attorneys-General at the November meeting this year. At that stage I will consider the information that has come through that work.
MS LE COUTEUR: Attorney, does the ACT have a policy on what is the most appropriate age, and would the ACT be prepared to go it alone if COAG takes as long on this as it has on so many other things?
Mrs Dunne: A point of order, Madam Speaker. I seek your ruling on whether this is a request for an announcement of government policy.
MADAM SPEAKER: I do not think it is a request, but I caution the attorney not to seek to make an announcement of government policy.
MR RAMSAY: My comment is that I do not believe that 12 months of consideration on this as part of the work of the Council of Attorneys-General is an excessive time. We will be considering the matter when the report comes in. I do not believe it is appropriate for us to pre-empt what may or may or not be in that report to the CAG meeting in November this year.
ACT Health—deficit
MISS C BURCH: My question is to the Minister for Health. Minister, again referring to commentary in your incoming ministerial brief, why was the deficit for the ACT Health Directorate worse than expected?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: Again, I refer members of the opposition to the fact that annual reports have not yet been finalised. So I am awaiting the final versions of the annual reports from both the ACT Health Directorate and Canberra Health Services. I will have more to say in relation to the financial outcomes on receipt of those documents.
MISS C BURCH: Minister, what was the final financial operating result for the ACT Health Directorate in 2018-19?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I thank Miss Burch for the supplementary but again indicate, as I have previously, that I am awaiting the final annual report from the Health Directorate.
MR COE: Minister, have you seen the end-of-year financial report? If not, what have you been doing for a couple of months? If so, what was the final financial operating result?
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