Page 1841 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 30 May 1990
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Mr Stevenson: Noise pollution or other areas within your portfolio.
MR DUBY: Naturally, Mr Speaker, it goes without saying that, if someone makes a genuine complaint that a particular person or agency is somehow contravening the law - whatever that law may be, whether it relates to dog control, noise pollution or anything else - and requests that an inspector come and presumably see whether the law is being complied with, it would not be contemplated that any fee would be charged to the complainant.
Community Facilities
MS FOLLETT: My question again is directed to the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts. We have established that he has not talked to the Minister for transport. Would he inform the Assembly whether he has had discussions with Mr Collaery regarding the cost of new community facilities which would be needed to replace the spaces that will be no longer available after 15 to 25 schools have been closed.
MR HUMPHRIES: It is perfectly plain, Mr Speaker, that members of the Opposition are preparing the ground for a major assault on the people of Canberra on the basis of scare tactics. They are going to claim that the Government is not planning properly for the process of change, that it is doing this in a half-baked way. Again, as I said with respect to Mrs Grassby's question, it is attempting to make assumptions about changes which we simply cannot project until such time as those changes have actually been identified and mapped out.
Naturally, we will be speaking to Mr Collaery and others within the Government about the way in which particular communities might be affected by the way in which schools in their areas are closed or otherwise affected by these changes. But to do so now, when I have no particular schools to identify as being closed, would be a waste of the valuable resources of the Ministers and the bureaucracies that serve them.
Priorities Review Board
MRS NOLAN: Mr Speaker, my question is addressed to the Chief Minister. Would he outline the Government's view on the Priorities Review Board recommendations in relation to betterment tax.
MR KAINE: Yes, Mr Speaker. I thought I made it pretty clear in my tabling speech yesterday, when I presented the Priorities Review Board report, that the Government had
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