Festival Plaza Redevelopment

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:37): My supplementary is to either the Attorney-General or the minister. When the bundle of documents is identified, could you inquire whether any of those documents was made available to the Auditor-General for the purposes of undertaking their investigation of this matter?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Wright is called to order.

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister for Housing and Urban Development) (14:38): Now it seems we are at cross-purposes. I thought that the earlier questions were about the bundling for the purposes of a freedom of information request. Now we seem to be interested in bundling for the purposes of an auditor-general's inquiry. It would be up to the management of an agency, which is currently in the process of responding to a request for information from an auditor-general about what documents and whether they are bundled or loose-leafed, that they are provided to the Auditor-General.

I am happy to provide some information to the house, seeking further information about whether they have been provided for the purposes of a freedom of information application, but the transmission of documents for the purposes of an inquiry surely is the purview of the management, not the executive government, and the Auditor-General who conducts the inquiry.