Page 1226 - Week 05 - Thursday, 4 June 2020
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MADAM SPEAKER: There is a point of order; the Chief Minister will resume his seat, please.
Mrs Dunne: Ms Lee’s question to the Chief Minister was: what individual businesses did you, that is, the Chief Minister, consult?
MADAM SPEAKER: There was an earlier question around community groups as well.
Mrs Dunne: On the point of order, the question was: whom did the Chief Minister consult? He needs to be directly relevant. If he wants to go on, after being directly relevant, to answer the question from the last—
MADAM SPEAKER: There is no point of order. The question was around community consultation. The subsequent question was around consultation the Chief Minister had. I cannot direct him how to answer. I believe he is relevant in letting this Assembly know what community groups were consulted and what community consultation was undertaken.
Ms Lee: On the point of order, can I clarify that the first question that I asked—the initial question—was also, “Chief Minister, which stakeholders did you consult regarding the project?”
MR BARR: The City Renewal Authority undertook the consultation. I did not personally undertake the consultation on the project. I do not know what the opposition thinks the responsibilities are for a minister, but I cannot personally consult on every single infrastructure project in the ACT. That is what the City Renewal Authority has undertaken over months, with hundreds and hundreds of people engaged. (Time expired.)
Opposition member interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Coe, that is enough interjections early in question time. Mr Wall, do you have a supplementary question?
MR WALL: Minister, why do you not engage with constituents in your electorate and stakeholders in your portfolio group? Are you simply too good to engage with them directly?
MR BARR: Seriously, that question is risible.
Municipal services—trees
MR MILLIGAN: Madam Speaker, my question is to the Minister for City Services. Recently you announced a program to plant 4,000 trees across Canberra. Minister, why is only one of those trees being planted in Mitchell?
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