Page 645 - Week 02 - Thursday, 23 March 2023
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MR ACTING SPEAKER: Minister, do you have any more to add?
MS DAVIDSON: Yes, I do actually. Thank you for the question, Information was provided to the Minister for Health. I know that information was provided by the CEO of Canberra Health Services and by Canberra Health Services officials. They were the most appropriate people to provide that detail to the Minister for Health and to be able to answer any further questions that she may have had. It was therefore most appropriate for them to be having those conversations, and I knew that they were happening. I am very thankful to everyone at CHS for ensuring that we were all well informed and updated.
MS CASTLEY: Minister, did you personally brief the cabinet and when?
MS DAVIDSON: Thank you for the question. Information about something of this nature is provided to the ministers who have relevant responsibilities for the nature of what is happening with individuals within Canberra Health Services. That information was provided, and it is not necessary to be discussing matters relating to individual patients with every minister of cabinet.
Molonglo River—bridge
DR PATERSON: My question is to the Minister for Transport and City Services. Minister, can you please update the Assembly on the status of the Molonglo River Bridge project?
MR STEEL: I thank Dr Paterson for her question and note her interest in the Molonglo River Bridge and road approach project. I was very excited recently to announce that a safer, faster and more reliable crossing of the Molonglo River is one step closer with a contract issued for the construction of the Molonglo River Bridge. The Australian and the ACT governments are working together to build one of Canberra’s largest ever bridge projects, which will transform the Molonglo Valley and better connect Denman Prospect, Coombs, Wright and Whitlam as well as the future subdivisions in Molonglo 3, with Belconnen, Woden and the rest of Canberra. I was delighted to join the Federal Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Catherine King in Whitlam last month to announce the detailed design and construction contract has been awarded to a tier 1 company, BMD Construction for $172.7 million. The project is jointly funded with the Australian government and I thanked Minister King and the Australian government for their continued support for the ACT’s infrastructure projects and priorities.
Detailed design has commenced and is expected to be completed by the end of the year. Construction will then start on the bridge and road approaches which are expected to open to traffic around the end of 2025. The ACT government is committed to building the infrastructure that our growing city needs to ensure Canberra remains one of the most liveable cities in the world.
DR PATERSON: Minister, why is this project so critical for people on Canberra's southside, including the residents of the Molonglo Valley?
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