The minister responsible for the ACT's public libraries says the ongoing suggestion cuts to weekend hours was bloody-mindedness in action was "blowing my brain" and she would have taken another option if there was one.
Tara Cheyne was censured on Wednesday but defended her handling of library hours cuts and seatbelt offence fines that were found to be incorrectly authorised in a censure motion debate brought on by the opposition on Wednesday.
Ms Cheyne also committed to prioritising weekend library access at the Kippax and Erindale branches from the middle of next year, restoring access after cuts the minister had before said were unavoidable and had been designed to prioritise staff wellbeing.
The Liberals, Greens and independent MLA Fiona Carrick on Wednesday voted to censure Ms Cheyne.
Opposition Leader Mark Parton moved the censure motion - one step below a no-confidence motion that, if passed, prompts a minister to resign - and said Ms Cheyne had failed on two fronts.
Mr Parton said Ms Cheyne's failure to follow through on keeping libraries open after an Assembly motion passed earlier in the year was "in absolute contempt of the parliament".
Ms Cheyne said the way the government had responded to the motion, including tabling a "lengthy and comprehensive" response on Tuesday, could not be regarded as contempt.
In fact, the Assembly asked me to.
The Greens, Liberals and Ms Carrick voted against Mr Emerson's move to downgrade the censure vote.
Ms Carrick said she supported the censure motion because Ms Cheyne had not provided more information to justify a decision to co-locate the Access Canberra shopfront in Woden Library.