Page 4571 - Week 16 - Tuesday, 27 November 1990
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and I can only say that the Prime Minister's response - that we can borrow additional money to cover the transitional restructuring period that we are going through - is merely going to make the financial future of the ACT resident less secure and is going to add to the public debt, if we follow the Prime Minister's advice.
Allara Street Construction Work
MRS GRASSBY: My question is to Mr Duby, as Minister for Urban Services. What steps has the Minister taken to ensure the safety of traffic and pedestrians using Allara Street while the northbound lane and footpath are closed due to construction work? By what authority has the road been closed, and when will this traffic hazard cease?
MR DUBY: I thank Mrs Grassby for the question. It amazes me why matters like this are raised in a possible Assembly question when, clearly, it is a matter of some technical detail with which I am not familiar at the moment. I shall undertake to find out the reasons and the circumstances surrounding the roadworks and reconstructions that Mrs Grassby refers to, and get back to her.
Rivett Primary School - Letting of Space
MR STEVENSON: My question is to Gary Humphries. What percentage of Rivett school is intended to be let for non-educational purposes?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I think Mr Stevenson was either not listening or not in the chamber on the previous occasion when I answered a very similar question about the use of space at Rivett school. To refresh his memory, what I said on that occasion was that, with the decision to leave the school open, there was still some possibility that some proportion of the space in the school could be let out or be made otherwise available to groups other than the school itself. We will negotiate with the groups concerned and with the school, which, I might say, is very enthusiastic about the concept, to see how this might occur.
Of course, the decision not to close the school was taken only last week, so it is obviously not possible to come into this place today and indicate what the results of the negotiations are with that affected school. However, I can repeat to Mr Stevenson my assurance that, when the Government has concluded those negotiations and it has agreed upon a suitable use for the surplus space and the percentage of that surplus space in the school, I will certainly come to the Assembly and advise it of such.
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