Page 3728 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 17 October 1990
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of developing the concept of program budgeting for the ACT the concept of performance measurement has been incorporated, in my view we have not yet gone far enough in doing that. It must still be very difficult at the end of the year to determine how an agency has performed in achieving its objectives as set by the Government at the beginning of the year. I think it is necessary to set some performance parameters and to measure performances after the event to see how they went. I am not too sure whether that has anything to do with the Yes, Minister series or not, Mr Stevenson.
School Closures - South Curtin Primary School
MR WOOD: I direct my question to Mr Humphries. Minister, in respect to school closures, are you expecting that South Curtin Primary School will be fully refurbished and ready to take students on day one next year, should closures proceed? Of course, we do not want them to.
MR HUMPHRIES: I thank Mr Wood for his question. Naturally, in the event that the Government's decision to close Lyons school in particular proceeds, it is my intention that there will be a prompt movement of resources into place so that children who are starting at the South Curtin school on that date can do so. It is my expectation that that is possible. My department advises me that that is possible, although it would be remiss of me not to alert the Assembly to the fact that at the present time there are problems with the union movement concerning this matter. Some unions have suggested - they have more than suggested; they have emphatically put the view - that the Government ought not to proceed with that decision. They have taken steps to block the implementation of that decision. That is a precedent which I view with the utmost seriousness. I think it is a very dangerous one for whoever sits on the Government benches, and a most unfortunate precedent for the union movement to be setting as well.
However, the question Mr Wood is asking is: is it possible? It is my advice that the movement of students and so on should be sufficiently advanced to permit the occupation of the South Curtin site by incoming primary school students at the beginning of term one, assuming that union bans or other actions of a similar kind do not prevent that from occurring, and obviously notwithstanding any other unforeseen circumstances which are beyond the control of the Government.
MR WOOD: I have a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. Is the Minister considering other options for children from Lyons Primary School, including the prospect of busing them to North Curtin?
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