❓ Dr. Honey questions the Premier about the Landgate offices sale, specifically regarding the acceptance of the lowest value sales scenario without a tenant. The Premier defends the decision, citing expert advice and the benefits of the Market-Led Proposals (MLP) process.
AnsweredQoN 632Legislative Assembly
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LANDGATE OFFICES — SALE
632. Dr D.J. HONEY to the Premier:
I
have a supplementary question. Was accepting the lowest value sales scenario
with no tenant purposeful or a mistake?
632. Dr D.J. HONEY to the Premier:
I
have a supplementary question. Was accepting the lowest value sales scenario
with no tenant purposeful or a mistake?
AnswerView source ↗
I do not understand the member's
question. I will explain it to him again.
Dr D.J. Honey : Or was it
deliberate? Did you deliberately know the valuation had no tenant?
The
SPEAKER : Order, please! You have
had your chance for the supplementary. We will just have the response now.
Mr M. McGOWAN : What is the
member's allegation? Is he trying to suggest that the commercial party
involved is somehow improper? Is that what the member is suggesting?
Dr D.J. Honey : No, I am
saying Treasury didn't do its job.
Mr
M. McGOWAN : I am just saying to
the member that government experts in this area analysed it and advisers — major commercial property firms—looked at
it and said there is an existing asset that is tired, old and under-utilised . They came up with a model that was cheaper
than government having to do it and that was the model that was taken forward. That is what was accepted by government. The MLP process is designed
to throw up innovative things. I know that the member does not support
innovation—that is not the way that he thinks—but innovative
and new ways of doing things is what the MLP process is designed to come up
with. Industry across the state supports the MLP process. It wants the MLP
process. I might say that it is very vigorous, and it can be time consuming and have so many probity checks that sometimes
it can take a long time to get to an outcome, but I want to see it produce outcomes. It produced an outcome based upon all the advice, the hurdles and the
probity checks within it that saves the government money. I would have thought
that that is a good thing.
question. I will explain it to him again.
Dr D.J. Honey : Or was it
deliberate? Did you deliberately know the valuation had no tenant?
The
SPEAKER : Order, please! You have
had your chance for the supplementary. We will just have the response now.
Mr M. McGOWAN : What is the
member's allegation? Is he trying to suggest that the commercial party
involved is somehow improper? Is that what the member is suggesting?
Dr D.J. Honey : No, I am
saying Treasury didn't do its job.
Mr
M. McGOWAN : I am just saying to
the member that government experts in this area analysed it and advisers — major commercial property firms—looked at
it and said there is an existing asset that is tired, old and under-utilised . They came up with a model that was cheaper
than government having to do it and that was the model that was taken forward. That is what was accepted by government. The MLP process is designed
to throw up innovative things. I know that the member does not support
innovation—that is not the way that he thinks—but innovative
and new ways of doing things is what the MLP process is designed to come up
with. Industry across the state supports the MLP process. It wants the MLP
process. I might say that it is very vigorous, and it can be time consuming and have so many probity checks that sometimes
it can take a long time to get to an outcome, but I want to see it produce outcomes. It produced an outcome based upon all the advice, the hurdles and the
probity checks within it that saves the government money. I would have thought
that that is a good thing.
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