Page 3658 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 15 October 1991
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Office of Sport and Recreation : Hackett Primary School
MR STEFANIAK: I am glad that Mr Berry is back there. My question to him is in his capacity as Minister for Sport. I was interested to hear Mr Wood say that your Government is going to make some decision on Hackett Primary School in the next week. Is the Minister for Sport prepared to accede to the requests of not only the sporting community but also his own department and relocate the Office of Sport and Recreation in the disused part of Hackett Primary School?
MR BERRY: I think, Mr Speaker, again this crosses a couple of portfolio areas.
Mr Kaine: Whom are you going to chuck the question to next?
MR BERRY: You do not have to worry about me chucking the question. I will always answer the question, Mr Kaine; don't you worry about that. I will handle the question.
That is an issue that I have heard about; but I understand that Mr Wood is currently looking at the Hackett Primary School in relation to its position as an educational facility. If it were not to be used as an educational facility, some planning measures would have to be dealt with before any decision could be looked at in respect of the transfer of officers from within my portfolio or that of anybody else. I think a little more water has to flow under the bridge before one makes a decision about who occupies the other part of Hackett Primary School while it is still designated as a school.
MR STEFANIAK: I have a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. Given that this issue has been around since just before the demise of the Alliance Government, Mr Berry, and given that Mr Wood has indicated that the Government will be making a decision in the next week, you have only a week. Are you ruling out the fact that the Office of Sport and Recreation can move into Hackett Primary School?
MR BERRY: This borders on being out of order, I think, because it is asking me to announce some sort of Executive policy in relation to the matter. But I do not mind answering it, Mr Speaker, because it is worth while commenting on it. Of course, the demise of the Alliance Government was a welcome one for the sports community, and the rest of the ACT community for that matter. We have been left with the opportunity, in some respects, and the onerous job, in other respects, of dealing with government in the ACT since then.
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