Page 711 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 12 March 1991
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Education Budget
MR CONNOLLY: My question is to Mr Kaine, as Treasurer. Will Mr Kaine give to the Assembly details of the precise causes for the blow-out in the school closure budget, or the degree to which expenditure does not meet estimations, as he put it earlier, along with the reasons for every increase?
MR KAINE: Since I have already said that there is no blow-out in the education budget, it is a rather ridiculous question on the part of Mr Connolly. I further suggest that if he wants information on the education budget he should address his question to the Education Minister who, I am sure, will be only too happy to give him the details. But, again, the premise that there is a budget blow-out is an absurdity.
Weston Creek Health Centre
MR MOORE: My question is to Mr Humphries; but, if it is more appropriately directed to Mr Duby because of the effect of what he was doing when he was Acting Minister, I am happy for him to answer it. How much money was spent by the Government on alterations to Weston Creek Health Centre in preparation for the movement of the Therapy Centre before the move was aborted because a tenant, Dr Reeve, could not be moved? Why did the ministry not check Dr Reeve's lease before work began?
MR HUMPHRIES: I cannot supply Mr Moore with details of the amount of work that was done before the plan was changed. I should point out that it was not merely because of Dr Reeve that changes in circumstances occurred. There were a whole series of factors which the Government took into account, one of which was the desire by some of the tenants concerned to be located in more appropriate premises. As I have maintained from the beginning of this process, it is not the Government's intention to be inflexible throughout these discussions.
My understanding - I am happy to take this part on notice and get back to Mr Moore with any details - is that little work was done at the Weston Creek Health Centre of a nature which could not be used ultimately for the new purposes to which that building is going to be put, and I would not expect that to have any impact on the overall budget implications of those changes. I have forgotten the second part of your question.
Mr Moore: Why did the ministry not check Dr Reeve's lease? You answered that, I think.
MR HUMPHRIES: Yes.
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