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PARLIAMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES


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No. 31
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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL




QUESTIONS

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ANSWERS


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FIRST SESSION OF THE FIFTY-FIRST PARLIAMENT
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TUESDAY 5 DECEMBER 1995


(The Questions and Answers Paper published for the first sitting day in each week will contain, by number and title, all unanswered questions, together with questions to which answers have been received on the previous sitting and any new questions. On subsequent days, new questions are printed, as are questions to which answers were received the previous day. Consequently the full text of any question will be printed only twice: when notice is given; and, when answered.)


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Publication of Question	Answer to be lodged by
Q&A No. 22 (including Question Nos 280 to 304)	18 December 1995
Q&A No. 23 (including Question No. 305)	19 December 1995
Q&A No. 24 (including Question No. 306)	20 December 1995
Q&A No. 25 (Nil Questions)	—
Q&A No. 26 (including Question Nos 307 to 310)	25 December 1995
Q&A No. 27 (Nil Questions)	—
Q&A No. 28 (including Question No. 311)	27 December 1995
Q&A No. 29 (including Question Nos 312 to 314)	28 December 1995
Q&A No. 30 (including Question Nos 315 to 317)	8 January 1996
Page 741 Q&A No. 31 (including Question No. 318)	9 January 1996

5 DECEMBER 1995

(Paper No. 31)

318 GAMING AND RACING—GREYHOUND RACING CONTROL BOARD—ANABOLIC STEROIDS— Mr Bull to ask the Minister for Community Services, Minister for Aged Services, and Minister for Disability Services representing the Minister for Gaming and Racing, and Minister Assisting the Premier on Hunter Development—

(1) Will the Minister provide a detailed report on all positive swabs taken by the Greyhound Racing Control Board during 1994 and 1995?

(2) (a) Does the Greyhound Racing Control Board take swabs for anabolic steroids in greyhounds?

(b) If not, will the Minister outline the rationale behind this policy?

(3) What is the procedure for notifying the NSW Police Service after a positive cocaine swab has been received by the Greyhound Racing Control Board?

(4) In response to a question taken on notice during the Budget Estimates hearings, the Minister stated that the Greyhound Racing Control Board had been furnished with a copy of the Scullion Report on 2 August 1995 and that the Board was currently considering the recommendations of the Scullion Report. Has the Board now concluded considering the report and if so what recommendations has the Board adopted?







John Evans
Clerk of the Parliaments


















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