Page 1891 - Week 09 - Thursday, 19 October 1989
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could read out the letter to the Assembly, but as the Deputy Chief Minister is getting blamed for doing so, I will not take up the time of the house. I shall table this letter, Mr Speaker.
Mr Kaine: The three-minute answer will do.
MRS GRASSBY: Thank you, Mr Kaine.
MR MOORE: I ask a supplementary question. Minister, at the time that the heating is put in you are also intending to replace the hot-water services. I understand that that 160 litre off-peak hot-water service is taking up, in relatively small flats, a quite large amount of cupboard space. Have you any intention of providing alternative cupboard space to the tenants in Currong Flats?
MRS GRASSBY: I would like to make sure that the tenants in Currong Flats, like all the tenants of the Housing Trust, have everything they want. One of my aims is to carpet all the floors of all houses tenanted by the Housing Trust. I think it is rather sad that anybody goes into a house in this climate without floor coverings.
Unfortunately, I cannot do everything I would like to do because there is only a certain amount of cake, and once you have cut it up a certain way that is pretty well all the cake there is. So unless we can find some more money, then I will not be able to do it, I am afraid. So I must be honest with you and say, no, we will not be able to do it.
Road Upgrading
MRS NOLAN: My question is to Mrs Grassby as Minister for Housing and Urban Services. Has the ACT Government, along with the New South Wales Government, placed its joint submission for the upgrading of the Kings Highway to the Federal Government yet? If not, when will it be done, given your statement of 13 September?
MRS GRASSBY: No, it has not been put in to the Government. We are working on it now and we will work with a joint submission. We will be contacting the New South Wales Government, because I do not think it would be a very good idea to put our submission in without theirs. The two forces together may be able to get some money from the Federal Government to upgrade the road. We are working on the best way of getting the money.
MRS NOLAN: I ask a supplementary question. So when will it be done?
MRS GRASSBY: As soon as it is done, Mrs Nolan, I will inform the house. At the moment I cannot give you a day or a date or an hour or a minute on it, but I will inform you as soon as it is done.
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