The Tasmanian Greens today (Tues) welcomed the conclusion of the report by the Privileges Committee inquiry into matters surrounding evidence given to the Select Committee on Scottsdale Sawmills, with the report tabled in Parliament today.
Greens Member for Bass Kim Booth MP welcomed the report’s recommendation that no further action be taken, saying that now the work of the stalled Scottsdale Sawmills Committee can continue.
“I’m glad that due process has been undertaken and is now concluded. I welcome the report’s recommendation that no further action be taken.”
“I was always confident that no action would be taken against any person.”
“I’m pleased that the processes I recommended will now mean that mistakes like the one that occurred, a one-off human error which hasn’t occurred before in Parliament, will be even less likely in future.
Anyone coming before a Parliamentary committee can be even more confident that their evidence will remain confidential.”
“But most of all, I welcome the fact that the resolution of this issue now means that the Scottsdale Committee can get back to the serious business it was set up for: To give people in the north-east the answers they deserve to all the unanswered questions over how this critical log supply came to be shut down,” said Mr Booth.
