Page 1229 - Week 04 - Thursday, 21 March 1991
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ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Humphries) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Weston Creek Community Service
MS FOLLETT (Leader of the Opposition) (5.57): I rise to read into the Hansard of the Assembly a letter which has been freely given to me. It is a letter dated 14 March 1991 and it is addressed to Mr Bernard Collaery, Minister for Community Services. It reads:
Dear Minister,
We are writing to you to express our profound concern and disappointment about current and future accommodation arrangements for Weston Creek Community Service, as neither yourself, your personal staff, nor your departmental officers have consulted or even communicated directly with us since your announcement was made that the Independent Living Centre would be relocated to the Weston Creek Community Health Centre.
When we approached you on February 14, 1991, about our circumstances we did so in the belief and with the reassurance that the ACT Minister for Community Services would take whatever action was necessary and appropriate to meet the accommodation needs of WCCS.
We were pleased that you responded to those needs the very next day by visiting our Service, the Weston Creek Community Health Centre and the Early Intervention Therapy Centre at South Curtin Primary School.
However, we must express our disappointment and concern that since that time we have had little contact with you or your departmental officers to discuss our circumstances.
Finally, we heard on Tuesday that it had been decided by yourself and Minister Humphries to relocate the ILC from Macquarie Primary School to the Weston Creek Community Health Centre. Apparently an announcement has also been made as to future accommodation arrangements for WCCS.
You expressly stated during your visit that you considered our current accommodation in Brierly Street, Weston, to be inappropriate and expensive and that every effort would be made to return our Service to the Weston Creek Community Health Centre. You even led us to believe that we would be "ecstatic" about the final outcome of your deliberations.
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