Page 2597 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 8 August 1990
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Belconnen Remand Centre - Misleading information
- Copy of a letter from Mr T. Kaine, MLA, Chief Minister, to Mr D. Stevenson, MLA, dated 31 July 1990, relating to advice provided by an officer of the Housing and Community Services Branch.
MR STEVENSON: I wish to ask a supplementary question. Would the Chief Minister please inform the house whether Mr Chivers has been demoted from his position as the Executive Director of the ACT Housing and Community Services Bureau since making false statements to me? If so, to what position has he been demoted and, most importantly, what is the reason for such demotion?
MR KAINE: I can say, quite unequivocally, that I have no knowledge of any demotion of Mr Chivers, if it has occurred. As far as I am aware, it has nothing to do with this matter, and I am not in a position to answer the member's question. I will take it on notice, if he so desires.
School Closures
MR MOORE: My question is directed to the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts. Can he indicate what compensation the Government is planning for parents of children in schools that are closing for new uniforms, extra travel costs, grief counselling and other associated economic costs that will be associated with school closures? What does his department estimate those costs to individual families with, say, one child or three children to be?
MR HUMPHRIES: I thank Mr Moore for his question. There are no compensation plans for parents in those positions, any more than the Government intends to seek a dividend from parents for the benefits that flow from the children attending schools where additional courses and other options are available.
MR MOORE: I wish to ask a supplementary question, Mr Acting Speaker.
MR ACTING SPEAKER: What is your supplementary question, Mr Moore?
MR MOORE: The supplementary question seeks clarification. I asked the Minister to identify the estimates of costs associated for individual parents, which must have been taken into account in determining which schools should be closed. I ask him now for a figure.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Acting Speaker, I have already said that the Government has no plans to pay compensation for those matters. Therefore, the question of estimating the figure, were we to pay it, is entirely hypothetical.
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