Page 4544 - Week 15 - Wednesday, 20 November 1991
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commissioned, will be made available for community consultation and discussion before any decisions are made to redevelop the Canberra Bowling Club site?
MR WOOD: Mr Speaker, it is impossible to satisfy Mr Jensen's insatiable demand for more and more detail and more and more consultation. I do not know where it ends. I will undertake a review of the heritage importance of that building and, more to the point, whether it is savable and, if it is savable, whether and how it may be incorporated into any proposal.
I am also aware of timing factors. This Assembly is coming to an end. After mid-December at some point, there will be no further debate in this house. It is my intention, and it is the intention of the Follett Government, to be as open as possible. We are committed to that, and I believe that there is ample evidence of that. So, I am answering your question in this way: We will be as open as we always have been; we will consult as much as we can; but these matters also have to be expedited. Within that framework, Mr Jensen, I will respond.
MR JENSEN: I ask a supplementary question. In view of that response, Mr Wood, do I take it, then, that the answer on a commitment and an undertaking is no?
MR WOOD: That is probably a fair interpretation. I do not think we are about to start a whole new round of consultation on this isolated, though important, matter; but we are looking at it further.
Children's Day Care Centres
MR MOORE: My question is addressed to Mr Connolly, as Minister for Community Services, and I provided him with some notice about it. How often do government officials inspect the premises and services of children's day care centres? What actions are taken when a problem is reported at a time other than during an inspection?
MR CONNOLLY: I thank Mr Moore for giving me some notice that he would be interested in this detailed question. I am advised that there is an annual inspection for the purpose of renewing a licence. Routine or unannounced visits occur randomly throughout the year, two or three times; they will vary, but certainly they would occur more often if there has been any concern, for whatever reason, about a particular centre. So, there is a sort of random inspection which is concentrated more if there have been any difficulties.
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