Page 4057 - Week 14 - Wednesday, 24 October 1990
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School Closures - Hearing Impaired Children
MS FOLLETT: My question is again to the Minister for Education, Mr Humphries. Has the Minister been made aware that the Human Rights Commission is investigating the situation of the hearing impaired children at Weetangera school?
MR HUMPHRIES: I have heard the suggestion that the Human Rights Commission might be involved with that matter on the basis that a parent or a group of parents took the issue to that body. I understand that the charter of that body is to answer inquiries of that kind. To say that the matter is under investigation does not necessarily imply that there is, at this stage, a case to answer, I might emphasise. It would certainly mean that the issue has been raised by people concerned about the matter and it deserves to be addressed. I am confident, whatever the processes that are gone through, that the Government will be shown to have considered very responsibly the issues concerning the hearing impaired unit and to have addressed them in the way in which it made provision for that unit to transfer to the Hawker Primary School.
Fluoridation
MR STEVENSON: My question is to the Minister for Health. I have been requested by a constituent to ask a question regarding fluoridation. If someone, either child or adult, suffers ill health or is proven to have a health defect induced by fluoridation, can the ACT Government be held to be legally liable? I emphasise that the situation I am referring to would be one where it was acknowledged, medically, that the problem had indeed been caused by fluoridation of the drinking water.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Stevenson, I believe that question seeks a legal opinion. The Minister is not required to give you an answer.
Driver Training Site
MR MOORE: My question is to the Chief Minister and it relates to a matter of the environment. Will the Government be seeking an environmental assessment of the proposed redevelopment of the Australian Federal Police driver training site?
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I thought that I had made the Government's position on this matter pretty plain. If I have written one letter to interested people on this matter, I have written 30 or 40. I have made a couple of public statements about the matter. I have always made it quite clear that, when the responsible people who are
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