Page 4643 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 27 November 2019
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that an agency as important in this whole project as the ACT Ambulance Service holds no documents—not one piece of paper.
Mr Parton: A bit extraordinary.
MRS DUNNE: As Mr Parton said, it is extraordinary. I call upon the minister to ensure that the information I and my office received is correct. Mr Gentleman also needs to ensure that the information he gives in this place is correct. He just stood up and said that he had been advised that I had made no such freedom of information request.
Today I am calling on the minister to use the provisions of the standing orders that have been agreed in this place and used effectively on a number of occasions to put on the record the documents in the possession of the ACT Ambulance Service.
Ms Lawder: Which should have been given beforehand.
MRS DUNNE: I should have had access to them before. There is nothing in the scope of those documents that should exempt them. The handling of this freedom of information request does a disservice to this place. I commend the motion to the Assembly.
MR GENTLEMAN (Brindabella—Manager of Government Business, Minister for Advanced Technology and Space Industries, Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Minister for Planning and Land Management and Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (3.07): I thank Mrs Dunne for the motion. I reiterate that the advice to me is that neither ESA or ACTAS have been FOIed in the terms suggested during question time. If this motion goes forward I will look to any documents that have been provided by ACTAS or the ESA.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Planning—Coombs
Debate resumed.
MR HANSON (Murrumbidgee) (3.08): I would like to start by praising Mrs Jones for bringing this motion on, and commend her on her hard and continuous dedication to the work she has done not only on the Coombs peninsula issue but also more broadly across the suburb of Coombs, on many other issues. I will not repeat what Mrs Jones has said because I think she has laid out the case very well, with the support of Mr Parton and others in this place. What I would like to do is add the voice of a local resident, Mr Suhaan Bhagria, who is currently doing work experience in my office and who is a resident of Coombs. These are his thoughts:
The petition of the Coombs Peninsula communicates that it is a public asset, and the residents are not content and on board with development, as we have procured over 500 signatures.
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