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coming back to it. Indeed, there was some consideration given to it and, ultimately, the government members did not come to a position where they felt that this was a recommendation that could be agreed to. I hope that clears up the record of what actually happened, rather than what Ms Lawder is pretending happened, for political purposes only I assume.
Importantly, I again thank most members of the committee for the way in which this has been approached and, indeed, all PAC reports. I came to PAC midway through the term and walked into a whole lot of complex inquiries. I reiterate that Mrs Dunne, I think, has done a very good job as chair in helping the committee navigate these complex inquiries.
I very much appreciate the efforts of Dr Lloyd, who has had to keep up with us as we have worked through reports. You can see just how thick this report is and I think it is not unusual for our PAC reports to be this thick.
Mrs Dunne: I took about 20 pages out of it.
MS CHEYNE: Yes. This is not to say that we did not try to cut it down; and we did cut it down. He does an extraordinary job in keeping up and making sure that those changes, as we go through them, are taken on board. On these very complex issues, I do think that these reports, by and large, do help make sense of them and, yes, I think that the findings do show that there were some departures from practice and that there was one acquisition in particular that certainly does raise questions. I think that the committee, as a whole, went to extraordinary efforts to try to understand things and could not. I am not sure that anyone ever will.
With that, I think that there are very meaningful recommendations here, apart from recommendation 6, and recommendations 1 to 5, I hope, are some things that the government will look at in good faith.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Economic Development and Tourism—Standing Committee
Statement by chair
MR HANSON (Murrumbidgee) (11.05): Pursuant to standing order 246A, I wish to make a statement on behalf of the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Tourism relating to report 9: Inquiry into Building Quality. I wish to advise of a corrigendum to report 9 of the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Tourism. The corrigendum replaces the respective text in the published report. I therefore seek leave to table a corrigendum to report 9 of the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Tourism.
Leave granted.
MR HANSON: I table the following paper:
Economic Development and Tourism—Standing Committee—Report 9—Inquiry into Building Quality—Corrigenda.
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