Page 1351 - Week 07 - Thursday, 24 August 1989
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the planning and design of this work ahead of a decision on the development of associated community hospital facilities, although the importance of making a speedy decision on the community hospital option is highlighted.
Mr Speaker, the committee draws attention to the long history of uncertainty surrounding the future of Royal Canberra Hospital and says this uncertainty has had a major impact on staff, the community and management. It also stresses that there will be long planning and construction time frames associated with any redevelopment - probably five to seven years - and this will be complicated by the need to maintain services and move them between sites during construction.
The Government recognises the need to decide the future directions for improving the ACT public hospital system quickly. The report will now be made available for public comment before the Government makes a decision on this important issue. Over the coming weeks I will be meeting with the other parties in this Assembly and with interested groups in the community as part of the consultation on the steering committee's report. I move
That the Assembly takes note of the following papers:
ACT Public Hospital Redevelopment - Steering Committee Report -
Ministerial statement, 24 August 1989; and Report, 18 August 1989.
Debate (on motion by Mr Humphries) adjourned.
ACT ELECTRICITY AND WATER AUTHORITY -
CORPORATE PLAN 1989-93
Ministerial Statement and Papers
MRS GRASSBY (Minister for Housing and Urban Services), by leave: I am pleased to table the corporate plan for the Australian Capital Territory Electricity and Water authority.
The Australian Capital Territory Electricity and Water Ordinance 1988, which became an Act of this Assembly on self-government day, was formulated along commercial lines. Accordingly, the authority is a body corporate, with defined functions and powers. It is required to produce a corporate plan, financial targets and performance indicators. At the same time, the authority is an agency of the Government and there is a provision in the Act that empowers the Minister, in the public interest, to give directions with respect to the performance of functions and the exercise of powers. In this respect, the needs of the community are as much a part of the corporate philosophy of the authority as is its commercial viability.
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