Plan A from the rulebook for side stepping questions at parliamentary hearings is to cite confidentially. The reason why it’s confidential is also confidential. This is a corollary to Plan A.
Plan B is to use the sub judice rule where a matter might be the subject of legal action. Plan B also has corollaries. Canvassing legal options, even a litigant’s thought bubble are covered by Plan B.
Plan A has been used at current parliamentary public accounts committee hearing into the State’s electricity companies following the Basslink outage.
The government has now invoked Plan B and asked the committee to call a halt to proceedings “to enable arrangements to be put in place to protect the state’s interests in the context of contractual matters related to the BassLink failure.”
What are these contractual matters?
Basslink’s parent company, Keppel is listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. Its latest half yearly report dated 18th July has more to say about the Basslink failure than Hydro and the government are prepared to tell.
The report says …
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John Lawrence, Tasfintalk, http://tasfintalk.blogspot.com.au/
