20 MARCH 2014 www.hansard.act.gov.au Thursday, 20 March 2014 Education, Training and Youth Affairs—Standing Committee ................................ 585 Public Accounts—Standing Committee .................................................................... 587 Health, Ageing, Community and Social Services—Standing Committee ................. 591 Planning, Environment and Territory and Municipal Services— Standing Committee ............................................................................................. 591 Administration and Procedure—Standing Committee .............................................. 592 Getting home safely report—government response (Ministerial statement) ............. 602 National Close the Gap Day (Ministerial statement) ................................................. 606 Appropriation Bill 2013-2014 (No 2) ........................................................................ 608 Appropriation (Office of the Legislative Assembly) Bill 2013-2014 (No 2) ............ 610 Public Accounts—Standing Committee .................................................................... 610 Duties (Commercial Leases) Amendment Bill 2014 ................................................. 610 Territory-owned Corporations Amendment Bill 2014 .............................................. 612 Planning and Development (Project Facilitation) Amendment Bill 2014 ................. 613 Information Privacy Bill 2014 ................................................................................... 619 Justice and Community Safety Legislation Amendment Bill 2014 ........................... 624 Questions without notice: Economy—stimulus ....................................................................................... 626 Housing—land rent scheme ............................................................................ 627 Calvary hospital—birth centre ........................................................................ 628 Sport—beach volleyball ................................................................................. 630 Education—class sizes ................................................................................... 633 Tourism—events ............................................................................................ 634 Crime—car tyre slashing ................................................................................ 637 Education—parental engagement ................................................................... 639 Environment—biodiversity offsets policy ...................................................... 642 Transport—light rail ....................................................................................... 642 Crime—restorative justice .............................................................................. 647 Paper .......................................................................................................................... 650 Executive contracts .................................................................................................... 650 State of the service report 2012-2013—corrigendum ................................................ 651 Papers ......................................................................................................................... 652 Education—choice (Matter of public importance) .................................................... 652 Standing orders—proposed amendments .................................................................. 662 Amendments to the Electoral Act 1992—Select Committee .................................... 664 Education, Training and Youth Affairs—Standing Committee ................................ 668 Public Accounts—Standing Committee .................................................................... 669 Planning, Environment and Territory and Municipal Services— Standing Committee ............................................................................................. 669 Health, Ageing, Community and Social Services—Standing Committee ................. 670 Executive business—precedence ............................................................................... 670 ACT government campaign advertising—independent reviewer .............................. 670 Paper .......................................................................................................................... 672 Planning, Environment and Territory and Municipal Services— Standing Committee ............................................................................................. 672 Visitors ....................................................................................................................... 675 Electricity Feed-in (Large-scale Renewable Energy Generation) Amendment Bill 2014 .......................................................................................... 675 Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment Bill 2013 ........................... 684 Amendments to the Electoral Act 1992—Select Committee .................................... 696 Adjournment: ACT Seniors Week ......................................................................................... 697 Capital Chemist centenary college scholarships ............................................ 697 All Saints College ........................................................................................... 699 International Day of Happiness ...................................................................... 700 Azerbaijani community .................................................................................. 701 Answers to questions: Housing—public (Question No 238) .............................................................. 703 Alexander Maconochie Centre—blood screening (Question No 242) ........... 705 Same-sex marriage—High Court challenge (Question No 243) .................... 706 Multicultural affairs—Fringe Festival (Question No 246) ............................. 707 ACTION bus service—MyWay card (Question No 247) .............................. 707 ACTION bus service—free services (Question No 248) ............................... 708 Trees—Northbourne Avenue (Question No 249) .......................................... 709 Questions without notice taken on notice: Health Directorate—half-yearly report .......................................................... 709 ACT public service—private employment advertising .................................. 709 Roads—Apperly Close ................................................................................... 710 Planning—Canberra Raiders lease variation .................................................. 711 Canberra—centenary ...................................................................................... 711 Legislative Assembly for the ACT Thursday, 20 March 2014 MADAM SPEAKER (Mrs Dunne) took the chair at 10 am and asked members to stand in silence and pray or reflect on their responsibilities to the people of the Australian Capital Territory. Education, Training and Youth Affairs—Standing Committee Report 2 MS PORTER (Ginninderra) (10.01): Pursuant to order I present the following report: Education, Training and Youth Affairs—Standing Committee—Report 2— Report on Annual and Financial Reports 2012-2013, dated 20 March 2014, together with a copy of the relevant minutes of proceedings. I move: That the report be noted. In tabling this report today I acknowledge all those who contributed to it, particularly the committee secretary, Mr Andrew Snedden, committee office staff and, of course, my fellow committee members, Ms Berry, Mrs Jones and Mr Doszpot. I also remind members that, due to urgent medical treatment at the time, I was unable to chair the annual reports inquiry 2013, so my thanks go to Ms Berry for chairing the inquiry and Mr Gentleman for joining the committee in my stead for that period. Of course, not being at the hearings posed some challenges for me when drafting the chair’s report. I thank the committee secretary for assisting in ensuring that I was able to thoroughly scrutinise the Hansard records of the hearings so that the draft report and the recommendations could adequately reflect the issues brought before the committee. I also thank the committee members for the cooperative way in which they worked together, resulting in the report that you have before you. The committee made six recommendations, and I will talk to those briefly. Madam Speaker, you are aware that the committee is also inquiring into the issue of employment, skills and training at the moment, so the committee was particularly interested in what was put before it by the ACT Building and Construction Industry Training Fund Authority. Recommendation 1 is that the authority continue to give an updated account on challenges facing its client industry, particularly in the changing building, construction and engineering activities. Madam Speaker, you would also be aware that some matters have been discussed in this place in relation to CIT and staffing management issues. That was dealt with quite considerably during the hearing. A lot of evidence was given about the work that has been undertaken since by the CIT and measures that have been put in place, and the committee is particularly interested in looking at that as a stand-alone part of the next annual report. Recommendation 2 is for a comprehensive stand-alone section that provides an updated account on the steps being taken to resolve any outstanding 585 20 March