Interim Report — “Inquiry into Alternate Approaches to Reducing Illicit Drug Use and its Effects on the Community — Extension of Time” — Tabling
HON ALISON XAMON (North Metropolitan) [10.30 am]: I am directed to present an interim report of the Select Committee into Alternate Approaches to Reducing Illicit Drug Use and its Effects on the Community titled “Inquiry into Alternate Approaches to Reducing Illicit Drug Use and its Effects on the Community — Extension of Time”.
[See paper 2965 - Interim Report — Extension of Time (August 2019) - (Date published 22/08/2019)]
Hon ALISON XAMON: On 19 August 2019, the committee resolved to seek an extension of the date by which the committee is to report from 17 October 2019 to 5 December 2019. The committee has received a significant volume of evidence and a large number of submissions and is awaiting further written evidence. The committee has received 77 submissions, held 23 hearings and conducted 22 site visits and external meetings. This extension is sought to enable the committee to assess and deliberate on the large amount of material received and being awaited so as to properly discharge its reporting obligations to the house.
Extension of Reporting Time — Motion
HON ALISON XAMON (North Metropolitan) [10.31 am] — without notice: I move —
That the reporting date for the inquiry into alternate approaches to reducing illicit drug use be extended from 17 October 2019 to 5 December 2019.
[Leave granted for the member’s speech to be continued at a later stage of the sitting.]
Debate thus adjourned.