Page 4642 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 27 November 2019
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that Mr Gentleman says I have not made. His staff need to check before they give him advice in this place. I sought documents dated from 1 November 2016 related to the change in the scope, location, timing and estimated cost of the SPIRE project, in particular, briefs for ministers relating to SPIRE, documents related to the transfer of responsibility for SPIRE; communications strategies; planning documents related to SPIRE, including traffic and other studies; correspondence with other directorates, unions, professional organisations; documents relating to meetings to discuss SPIRE, including agenda and minutes of meetings; costing of the SPIRE project; contracts related to the planning for SPIRE’s main works and the SPIRE project enabling works; and any relevant documents associated with the SPIRE project.
In response I was told the ESA did not have any documents. My staff went back to the ESA to clarify this and the final response we received on 13 November was:
Thank you for your email checking JACS response to your FOI application for the SPIRE project.
To the best of my knowledge and the information received from ESA Ministerial Services, I confirm that the ACT Ambulance Service reported that it holds no records in relation to this FOI scope. Subsequent to your query, this information was re-confirmed as correct.
I seek leave to table those documents.
Leave granted.
MRS DUNNE: I table the following papers:
Freedom of information request—SPIRE Project—
Copy of email correspondence between Keith Old and Julia Bowden, Assistant Director, Freedom of Information Governance, Coordination and Reporting, Justice and Community Safety Directorate, dated 13 November 2019.
Copy of letter to Mrs Dunne from David Hart, Information Officer, Justice and Community Safety Directorate, dated 13 November 2019.
I now seek leave to move the motion circulated in my name.
Leave granted.
MRS DUNNE: I move:
That, in accordance with standing order 213A, the Minister for Police and Emergency Services table all documents held by the ACT Ambulance Service that relate to consultation on the SPIRE Project.
I move this motion because the information is unclear. As an experienced parliamentarian, as someone who worked in FOI before I was in this place and as someone who has made a large number of FOI requests it seems improbable to me
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