Page 3548 - Week 12 - Thursday, 20 September 1990
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Melba Preschool
MR MOORE: My question is directed to the Minister for Education, Mr Humphries. It is very timely, considering that Mr Collaery has just earlier today mentioned that the change in Melba's demography is simply a temporary change. Under what premise and with what input from the communities involved and other interested groups has the decision been made to move Melba preschool, which was not nominated by the task force as one of the six for closure, to the primary school, and to subsequently convert that preschool site to a creche? Can the Minister tell this Assembly whether, in fact, the decision was just an arbitrary one made by the department of community services?
MR HUMPHRIES: No decision has been made to move the Melba preschool into the Melba Primary School, and I think Mr Moore should be more careful before he believes everything he reads.
Weston Creek Health Centre
MR BERRY: My question is directed to the Minister for Health. Mr Humphries, on Tuesday you outlined plans for the Weston Creek health centre and claimed to have consultation with the community there. Is the Minister aware that the Weston Creek Community Service works out of the health centre and also the Community Centre next door? Is he aware that these people are still waiting to be consulted and have, in fact, requested a meeting with him to discuss the planned closure? Is the Minister also aware that his proposals to relocate those services will split the functions of the Community Service and lead to increased overheads?
MR HUMPHRIES: I do not accept the premises that Mr Berry has outlined in asking his question. It may well be true that the association has sought a meeting with me and I have made myself quite - - -
Mr Berry: No, the service; it is not the association.
MR HUMPHRIES: The service, I beg your pardon. It may well be true that the service has sought a meeting with me, and I pride myself on being able to make myself available to such people. I am sure that if they have sought such a meeting the request will come up to me in due course or, indeed, it may have already been put in my diary for me to meet with them at some point in the near future. In terms of the splitting of the services between those two sites, I have to say that I would hope that those issues would be sorted out thoroughly with those organisations before any decision was made, so that it was possible to deal with them in an appropriate fashion.
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