Page 1326 - Week 05 - Thursday, 26 April 1990
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The answer to Mrs Nolan's question is that we expect that it will be August before the fit-out of the top floor of that building is completed and the department can, in fact, move its people down there. About 30 people will occupy those premises, from the accreditation section and from the Tuggeranong regional office, which is entirely appropriate. In fact, I can also say as Minister for Health that it is quite possible that officers of the Department of Health will also be occupying part of that building.
Lake Tuggeranong - Pollution
MR WOOD: I direct a question to the Chief Minister. As Minister for the environment, what action has he taken to prevent the continued pollution of Lake Tuggeranong; has he yet discovered what killed the fish; and will he undertake to table the autopsy report on those dead fish?
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, the responsibility for the fish in Lake Tuggeranong rests with the Minister for Finance and Urban Services, who has been examining the matter from the practical viewpoint of city management, which, despite the nature of the question, is in fact the position. I understand that he has got a report on the problem and he has the matter under control. I have not seen that report - - -
Mr Wood: Well, it is not under control. Fish are still dying.
Mr Stefaniak: No, they are not.
MR KAINE: I will sit down while the public debate goes on, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed, Chief Minister.
MR KAINE: I think the public debate should continue.
MR SPEAKER: Well, it has now ceased, Chief Minister.
Ainslie Transfer Station
MRS GRASSBY: My question is to Mr Kaine, as Minister for the environment. Can the Minister inform the Assembly what consultation was held with the Conservation Council of the ACT recycling campaign, or Revolve, prior to the decision to close the Ainslie Transfer Station?
MR KAINE: Put simply, Mr Speaker, as I have already said, none. The decision was taken not to renew a contract. That was the basis of the decision and it is consistent with this Government's program to reduce expenditures or to close a budget gap of the order of $37m next year. It was
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