NRS-20321 | Records of the Inquiry on Special Report of General Purpose Standing Committee No 2 Concerning a Possible Contempt [Legislative Council Standing Committee on Privileges]

The following resolution was made by the Legislative Council on 29 April 1998: “That the Special Report of General Purpose Standing Committee No 2 on a possible contempt of the Committee, be referred to the Standing Committee on the Parliamentary Privilege and Ethics of inquiry and report by 13 October 1998.” The terms of reference for the inquiry are contained in the Special Report and state as follows: “General Purpose Standing Committee No 2 of the Legislative Council to which was referred on 17 September 1997, a reference to inquire into and report on the budgetary processes of the New South Wales Department of Health, resolved at a deliberative meeting on 27 March 1998 that a Special Report be presented to the House in order that the House may decide whether the Standing Committee on Parliamentary Privilege and Ethics be requested to inquire into and report on whether there has been any breach of parliamentary privilege by the Honourable Andrew Refshauge, MP, Minister for Health, in attempting to deter Mr Anthony John Dennison from giving evidence to General Purpose Standing Committee No 2 on Thursday 5 March 1998.”