Page 1722 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 17 October 1989
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Cosmetics Manufacturer
MR COLLAERY: My question is directed to the Chief Minister as Minister responsible for planning. Apart from hearing my question to the Minister for Industry, Employment and Education referring to a grant of a lease of 3.646 hectares at Hume to Revlon Manufacturing Limited, Australia branch, firstly, have you any knowledge of the matter; secondly, if so, were you consulted in relation to planning and/or environmental matters; and, thirdly, as Treasurer would you agree that commercial sites of that size are properly leased for 99 years, with a covenant for building not necessarily having to start for seven years from the date of commencement?
MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, as the Minister for Industry, Employment and Education has undertaken to give a detailed reply on that matter, I think it might be best if I take up the points that Mr Collaery has made and ensure that the reply that comes to this Assembly covers all of the points on which he has requested information.
Mr Collaery: Mr Speaker, there is a simple question to the Chief Minister. Has she heard of this before or not?
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Collaery, do you wish to ask a supplementary question?
MR COLLAERY: I will ask a supplementary question, certainly, Mr Speaker. Chief Minister, would you please answer the first part of my question: Apart from hearing my question asked a few moments ago, had you heard of the grant of a lease of 3.646 hectares at Hume, presumably for a perfume farm?
MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, I am aware, of course, in general terms that the Revlon company has been interested in setting up an operation in the ACT. I have been aware of that, as I say, and indeed it is something that I would welcome because it is obviously a way of diversifying the ACT employment base, for finding jobs for our young Canberra people. But particular leases and the arrangements for those leases are matters for the Minister for Industry, Employment and Education.
Preschool Education
MR MOORE: My question is directed to the Minister for Industry, Employment and Education. I refer him to page 549 of the transcript of the Estimates Committee hearing on Wednesday, 10 October, where he described how the consultation process would work with reference to the closure of preschools in central Canberra, Woden, Weston and south Belconnen. At that stage, he described the consultation with advisory committees, appropriate people in the community and the unions. Does the Canberra
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