Page 2139 - Week 10 - Thursday, 26 October 1989
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you take any action on this matter? If you do receive confirmation of the Rally's intention in this regard, will you dispose of the pool vehicles allocated to the Residents Rally and what will you do with the proceeds? Finally, how will you view future requests from Rally members to you to authorise access to other Administration car pools, as was the case in the past?
MR SPEAKER: With respect, budget management is obviously not Dr Kinloch's forte. The vehicles belong to the Assembly car pool and not to individuals. I will write to the members concerned requesting written clarification of their needs. I will at the same time inform them that vehicles will not be available from any alternative car pool. On receipt of their written submission, if I find that I have vehicles in excess of requirements in the Assembly car pool, I will gladly sell the vehicles to the ACT Administration and the money so recouped I will spend on additional equipment and building alterations which have resulted from the recent Residents Rally shake-up. I suggest that Dr Kinloch's statement was in error, with respect.
Tuggeranong Office Accommodation
MR MOORE: My question is to the Minister for Industry, Employment and Education, and when he answers it perhaps he would also answer the last question I asked, which was about the last on, first off standard union principle. The question I have now refers to the move of his department to Tuggeranong. Whilst I endorse the principle of moving an administrative department away from Civic and out into Tuggeranong and the advantages that that would have, I wonder whether he has taken into account the impact that it will have on the schools division by breaking it into the OEC, Griffith section, Deakin, accrediting agency, regional offices, several of them, Macarthur House and then his own Civic offices.
MR WHALAN: In relation to the transfer of accommodation to Tuggeranong, I can say that a number of factors have influenced the decisions in this direction, not the least of which is the Government's commitment to proceed with the Civic Square redevelopment project, which will require the demolition in 1990 of both the North and the South Buildings, both of which contain elements of my department. Also the Government is committed to the location of elements of government throughout the town centres of the ACT. I would have thought that Mr Moore would have seen this as being a most commendable move in terms of relieving pressure in the inner city area, because that is the inevitable consequence of such a move as that. The effect of the move will be to ensure that services to the school system are maintained. The other office which is going out there initially is the office of sport, recreation and racing, which is a discrete unit and there will be plenty
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