Page 4572 - Week 16 - Tuesday, 27 November 1990
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MR STEVENSON: I have a supplementary question. Could I ask when it is expected, and also, when you say "when it is agreed upon", could I ask, agreed upon with whom?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I cannot honestly answer when as it is a question of discussing with the groups concerned. If there is some reason why they need to consider their position, then naturally I would have to allow them the time to consider that position. I do not intend to make a decision and then tell them about it afterwards. As to the second part of your question, which was - - -
Mr Stevenson: Agreed upon with whom?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Stevenson asked me with whom I would be discussing these issues. Of course, I would have to discuss them with the school concerned and with the potential tenants. I think one such potential tenant I mentioned last week was the Weston Creek Community Service. That is still a possibility, and there may be other potential tenants of the space. Certainly, whatever tenants might be thought suitable would be contacted, and we would discuss the appropriate needs of those groups and whether there was any capacity to accommodate them in the Rivett school's surplus space.
Royal Canberra Hospital North - Future Uses of Site
MR CONNOLLY: My question is to the Chief Minister. I refer the Chief Minister to the policy statements that he read into Hansard in response to Ms Follett's question earlier this afternoon in question time. How many beds, Chief Minister, will be in this community hospital facility to be retained at the Acton Peninsula? Can we take it from your statement earlier this afternoon that the decision to close Royal Canberra Hospital North is, in effect, being reversed?
MR KAINE: No, the decision to close it as a principal or major hospital will not be reversed; but, as I said then - and that was a statement of intent at the time which has since been turned into a policy - that facility should continue to be used for health related services. I identified certain things that it could be used for. It could be used for convalescent care. It could be used to house the QEII home for nursing mothers. It could be used to house the functions currently operated - - -
Mr Connolly: You said "community hospital".
MR KAINE: Yes, I described it as a community hospital; but I also described the kinds of services that it could be used for, and we have not changed that view. They are still on the agenda. As to how many beds, the answer to that is that I do not know, because I am not sufficiently close to the health system to know how many convalescent - - -
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