Page 4581 - Week 16 - Tuesday, 27 November 1990
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would be anxious to ensure that those negotiations are concluded successfully before we embark on the kind offer from the Hank Dusseldorp Forum. I am confident, nonetheless, that we can successfully conclude these negotiations with a view to offering the program in the ACT in 1991.
Pearce Primary School - Community Use
MR CONNOLLY: My question is to the Chief Minister, in his capacity as Minister for planning. I refer the Chief Minister to the Pearce school, where the Government has announced that the hall and other facilities will be retained for community purposes. Chief Minister, as the implementation principles for the variations to the policy plan for that site say that community uses will be restricted to those activities compatible with a residential environment, including restrictions on noise and hours of operation, can you assure those musical and theatre groups that currently use the Pearce hall that they will be able to continue to do so, following the planning changes?
MR KAINE: My understanding, Mr Speaker, is that all reasonable applications for the use of that space will be considered, and that, whatever the ultimate uses are that are approved by the Government for those buildings, they will be, as that variation suggests, compatible with a residential area. I would think that continued use by some of the musical groups would be appropriate, but I have not been informed as to who else has applied and what the current state is, in terms of examining all of those requests for community use. But I think that the Government's intention was clear enough; we obviously do not want to put in there any activity that would be offensive to the people living close by.
Hospice
MR BERRY: My question is to the Minister for Health, Mr Humphries. Have consultants been appointed with a brief which includes advice on where in the ACT health system a hospice should be located?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I do not know the situation as to the advice the Government has been receiving on the question of the location of the hospice, or at least, if I do know, I cannot recall at the present time. I beg your pardon, Mr Speaker; I withdraw that earlier answer. I do recall having met with a couple of people who are advising the Government on the hospice issue. I apologise for not recalling their names; I would be happy to supply those names to Mr Berry in due course. I think they are academics from Victoria, or Victoria and South Australia,
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