Legislative Council: Thursday, December 03, 2009

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TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT TOUR

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (14:30): As a further supplementary question: if minister Conlon had other visits, why under FOI does his itinerary reflect the exact same itinerary that the rest of the participants had?

The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY (Minister for Mineral Resources Development, Minister for Urban Development and Planning, Minister for Small Business) (14:31): Anyone who has been on an overseas trip would know that right up to the last moment changes to the itinerary are made. That is the way it is. When you are having four or five meetings a day, for various reasons, times will change, people will cancel, and opportunities will arise. Anyone who believes that the printed agenda is necessarily the final agenda does not understand; they have not been on these visits, because clearly nearly always there are last minute changes to the itinerary. When you FOId it I assume that what was produced was the itinerary that was prepared to for all of us before we left.