Ms O’CONNOR question to MINISTER for INFRASTRUCTURE, Mr VINCENT
The government of which you are a part of has announced its intention to sell the family silver, that is our public assets, government businesses, state-owned companies with the exception possibly of parts of the Hydro in order to pay off debt. As minister responsible for TasPorts – and I noted your contribution earlier when you talked about asking TasPorts for a much more detailed infrastructure report – can you confirm that there are considerations and discussions underway with which TasPorts assets may be made available for sale?
ANSWER
Mr President, I thank the member for the question. There are appropriate committees in place looking at the various parts of GBE reform. I, as minister for TasRail and TasPorts, am operating and working with them on an extremely normal basis of continual business – as they are until those transfer – the different levels come back to both us as a Cabinet and as a government. It is business as normal at this stage and that is all of my involvement as at this point in time.
