Page 295 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 20 February 1990
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Holding. Dr Kearney proposed that the ACT hospital system should be built around a principal hospital and it should be a system aimed at providing about 1,000 beds. It is not my plan, and to answer your question, no, I do not know what it will cost. You put a figure of $210m on it, but you did not know where the money was coming from. I do not know where that sort of money would come from, and until I know how we can plan it and how we can schedule it to produce a hospital system along the lines proposed by Dr Kearney, I shall not speculate about it either.
Flooding in Theodore
MR MOORE: My question is directed to Mr Duby as Minister for Urban Services. Is the Minister aware of the difficulties residents of Vonwiller Crescent in Theodore are having with recurrent flood waters? Can the Minister advise the Assembly what measures are being taken to remedy the problems they are experiencing with the inadequate and poorly planned drainage, the lack of ongoing site maintenance by builders, and what they claim is a lack of attention that departmental bodies are paying to the urgency of the problem?
MR DUBY: I am familiar with the problem associated with that particular address. I believe there has been an ongoing problem for some years associated with particular works in that area. I am not familiar with the site, but reports I have read indicate that there is a retaining wall of some kind which overflows onto the footpath and onto peoples' properties. The matter is in hand. I have been advised by my departmental officers that they are reviewing systems of overcoming the problems associated with water drainage and spillage in that street. I shall get back to the member privately, if he so wishes, with any detailed proposals.
MR MOORE: I wonder if the Minister intends compensating the residents for the damage that has occurred to their properties as a result of that poor urban planning?
MR DUBY: There are no plans in train at this stage for that action.
Status of Women
MR WHALAN: Mr Speaker, I would like to ask a question of Trevor Kaine. Is he aware that Ms Maher, who is his personal Executive Deputy and who has responsibilities in relation to the status of women, recently told a prominent interstate visitor that she had not been in Government long enough to think up some policies in relation to women. Is it correct that the Government has no policies in the area of status of women? If not, why not and, if so, what are they?
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