Page 2841 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 22 November 1989
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Departmental Relocations
MR STEFANIAK: My question is to the Minister for Industry, Employment and Education. Several months ago he announced that he was relocating part of one of his departments to Tuggeranong - I think it was the Education Department. Does the Government have any plans to relocate any ACT public servants to any other areas of the ACT?
MR WHALAN: There is a general commitment on the part of the Government to the dispersal of employment opportunities across the ACT through the relocation of offices. Of course, there is the commitment to the provision of services to the community at convenient locations. With that in mind, one further commitment which will eventually come about will be the completion of the building being constructed by the Long Service Leave Board. There is a commitment to occupying that building.
YMCA Site, Civic
MR COLLAERY: My question is to the Minister for Industry, Employment and Education. I refer to proposals lodged for the YMCA site, which is behind the Australian Taxation Office building opposite this Assembly. Is it a fact that proposals have been received for that site from a variety of interests and is it a fact that the Minister has had discussions with the commissioner of taxation about extending the ATO building to accommodate taxation officials on that site? If so, does that mean there will be more public servants in the city area or is it to house the existing numbers of Taxation Office staff?
MR WHALAN: Mr Collaery asked whether I had had discussions with the commissioner of taxation in relation to section 10, which is the area referred to, the area behind the Amdahl building which takes up the YMCA site and the Olympic Bowl site. To clarify that point, I point out that I have had no discussions with the commissioner of taxation. There was, in fact, a submission received by the Government for a proposal to construct an office there by the consolidation of that site.
In line with the invariable practice, that was referred to the Interim Territory Planning Authority, and I understand that ITPA has, in turn, referred it to the National Capital Planning Authority because, as a result of one of those extraordinary accidents of drawing lines on a map, the area we are talking about falls within the Parliamentary Triangle and thus within the jurisdiction of the National Capital Planning Authority. There are those of us who do not agree that accidents of lines being drawn on the map should automatically mean reference of that responsibility to the NCPA.
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