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the cafeteria services at building 3, Woden Valley Hospital, rehabilitation patients are receiving an appropriate level of service?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Acting Speaker, members will recall the controversy about the future of the building 3 cafeteria earlier this year. On 1 July this year, the rehabilitation and aged care service commenced the development of an innovative, clinically based cafeteria program for patients. The therapeutic program involved staff providing a full meal and snack service to rehabilitation clients and patients.
A further development in mid-July has resulted in the relocation of the main public cafeteria to the rehabilitation building. The hospital's redevelopment program requires the first floor location of the existing public and staff cafeterias to be vacated to allow for construction work for clinical services. In the coming months it is expected that a portable facility will be located adjacent to the rehabilitation cafeteria to allow for the transfer of the staff cafeteria from the main building.
In the longer term, following completion of the development program, it is anticipated that the rehabilitation and aged care service cafeteria therapeutic program will be more fully developed. Meanwhile, the program is gradually being implemented alongside services to the general public. I can assure members that the savings the Government planned to make when it announced the reorganisation of the rehabilitation cafe earlier this year will still be achieved.
School Closures - Costings
MR WOOD: Mr Speaker, I direct a question to the Minister for Education. It relates to his persistent refusal to do any homework on the subject of costings of school closures. I refer him to the costings put out recently by Dr Perkins, and I ask why it is that he did not read the costings that were provided to his office, I understand a little time ago. Why did he not read the information that he had been provided with, especially in view of the fact that he had earlier expressed interest in it?
MR HUMPHRIES: I am afraid I am unable to discern the nature of Mr Wood's question. He talks about information provided to me by my office. I do not know which information he is referring to.
Mr Wood: Frances Perkins.
MR HUMPHRIES: As I said, the information that came from Frances Perkins in the form of that pamphlet came to me second-hand, not through my office. I saw it incidentally
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