Page 3653 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 15 October 1991
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MR MOORE: My supplementary question, Mr Speaker, refers to the concept that we should not deal with the individual examples. They illustrate a broader problem. If you would like to answer a question on the broader problem, Mr Berry, it has to do with control of the health budget.
Mr Berry: It is hardly supplementary.
MR MOORE: Has your monthly health budget summary been made available to you? Are you going to pass it on to members of the Assembly?
MR SPEAKER: I would agree that that is out of order as a supplementary question, Mr Moore. It is hardly supplementary.
Hackett Primary School
MRS NOLAN: My question is to Mr Wood in his capacity as Minister for Education. Can you advise this Assembly when your Government will reopen Hackett Primary School, considering that this is the wish of the local school community? I understand that their wish is to have an early childhood model. If not, why is the Hackett community considered to be different from the communities of Cook and Lyons? If you are going to reopen the school, where will you get the money from?
MR WOOD: Mr Speaker, I will be making a statement about the reopening or otherwise of the Hackett Primary School, I believe, next Tuesday. I anticipate taking the matter before my colleagues as soon as I can; I have had some preliminary discussion with them already. It will not be long now before I have carefully examined all the options, and I will present them to my colleagues. I have met people from the community, who came to me with a range of options. I have looked at those options and all the variables that we can punch into the system, if you want to put it that way. We have considered it all very carefully. It is just about decision time; that is about a week away, as I said.
MRS NOLAN: I wish to ask a supplementary question. Mr Wood, why have you taken so much longer to consider carefully the wishes of the Hackett school community when the Cook and Lyons schools were reopened automatically straightaway?
MR WOOD: There is a very simple answer to that: They came to me much later in the piece. The Cook and Lyons communities had probably six months or a year's start in the process.
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