Page 5519 - Week 17 - Wednesday, 4 December 1991
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respond to those problems. This matter has been continuing for quite a long time. I believe that the Environmental Protection Service and other agencies of the ACT Government have been attending to the matter.
It is quite clear that the complaints have not been settled to the satisfaction of Mr Murnain, although I do think the people he represents would acknowledge that there has been considerable improvement in the noise coming from Fairbairn Park. It is my understanding that a bank was required to be built there as a sound abatement measure. Time will tell whether that has had any success. Certainly, when I was nearby recently, I saw evidence of that bank being constructed.
As to the non-availability of the EPS on a Sunday afternoon, I do not know what the former arrangements were. I think we do have measures in place to see that officers are available at weekends, because noise pollution complaints do come in at that time. There is an after-hours phone number. The letter from Mr Murnain has passed through my hands. I have referred it to the department. It should be over there by now, I believe, and I will respond quite rapidly to it.
MR MOORE: I ask a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. Mr Murnain has also requested that we organise a meeting with you and your officers, Mr Wood. You have always welcomed such requests. Mr Murnain actually requested that of Ms Follett, but I accept that it is your responsibility. Would you be happy to facilitate such a meeting that includes whichever members would like to attend?
MR WOOD: Yes, that was part of the letter, and he will get a reply saying that I will do that. I do not know when I will do it. It will not be in the next week or two. I am sure members would agree, given not only the sittings of the Assembly but also the fairly heavy load in our diaries at the moment; but I will be indicating in my reply to him that I will meet him as soon as possible.
Sports Facilities Coordinator
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, my question is addressed to the Minister for the Environment, Mr Wood. I ask Mr Wood what the assigned duties of the new sports facilities coordinator, or the unit thereof, now apparently located within the Minister's Department of the Environment, Land and Planning are. If there is such a unit, who are the people involved and what is its role?
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