Minister for Planning and Tralee Residential Development

Mr BARRY O'FARRELL: My question is addressed to the Premier. What action, if any, has the Premier taken to satisfy himself that the Minister for Planning acted properly in relation to his February 2006 fundraiser and his handling of the Tralee development?

Mr MORRIS IEMMA: What a sanctimonious hypocrite! Barry the bagman. What action for smearing the Minister for Planning? For 10 years the Leader of the Opposition stood beside or one step behind his leader, always saying, "If only they'd give me a go, we would be so much better." For all those years, as a former State director of the Liberal Party, was the Leader of the Opposition ever concerned about the issue of donations? If we want a rundown of donations, members might be interested in the Greenfields Foundation in Canberra or the Cormack Trust Foundation, and the millions of dollars in donations that got around the Federal disclosure laws. The Leader of the Opposition should give us full transparency and disclosure of those donations before the sanctimonious hypocrite smears the Minister for Planning, as he did yesterday.

Mr Barry O'Farrell: Point of order: My point of order relates to relevance. I suspect that the Premier misheard the question, which referred to the actions he has taken to satisfy himself about the appropriateness of the actions taken by his planning Minister in relation to matters raised publicly and in this House.

Mr MORRIS IEMMA: The Leader of the Opposition smears from the textbook written by the member for Vaucluse, who, by the way, spent $93,000 holding onto a supposedly safe Liberal seat. How does that go in his cap of $30,000, Barry? He smears the Minister for Planning about a phone call he may or may not have made. The issue is not whether a phone call was made about a function; it is about conduct and acting improperly.

The SPEAKER: Order! Members will cease interjecting.

Mr MORRIS IEMMA: If the Leader of the Opposition has an allegation to make about improper conduct he can take evidence or information to the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

Mr Barry O'Farrell: Point of order: I refer to Standing Order 129, which relates to relevance. The Premier has got closer to being relevant. What has the Premier done about improper conduct?

The SPEAKER: Order! The Leader of the Opposition will resume his seat.

Mr MORRIS IEMMA: If the Leader of the Opposition has an allegation to make he can send it to the Independent Commission Against Corruption. All of a sudden the Leader of the Opposition has discovered donations. We all know why. The Leader of the Opposition and members of the Opposition are so hopeless nobody would want to donate to them. They have no policies. That is why all of a sudden he is interested in donations. He was not interested in declaring donations or in transparency when the Greenfields Foundation was sucking in those millions. If the Leader of the Opposition has an allegation against the Minister for Planning he can make it to the Independent Commission Against Corruption. He might also take into account that a lot of people in that community want more housing supply, including the former Federal member, the council and residents. He should not come in here with hypocrisy about donations.