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open space permitted under the residential PLUZ and would not be developed for residential use. Can the Minister advise when the details of those areas in annex I of the planning report, which were changed from open space or similar land use to residential and which it is proposed to develop as residential as opposed to ancillary open space in the residential PLUZ, will be made available to the public?
MR WOOD: I do not have that date or the approximate date available. I will make the appropriate inquiries and inform you, Mr Jensen.
Government School Funding
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, my question is directed to Mr Wood as Minister for Education. The ACT Council of Parents and Citizens Associations has rejected outright the key recommendation of the Schools Restructuring Task Force, for per capita funding of ACT government schools. The council described such a recommendation, if implemented, as a backdoor method of closing schools through financial, education and administrative strangulation of smaller schools. In the light of such a scathing response, will the Government now reject per capita funding of public schools?
MR WOOD: Mr Speaker, I have read the response of the Council of P and C Associations, as I have read the draft, or the public advance, document of the task force. It is proper for me, as Minister, to withhold comment at this stage. I certainly have some views, and they are constantly being formed and further developed; but I expect that when Professor Brine brings the report to me it is the correct procedure to give it careful consideration and ultimately to make a view known. That view will not simply be my view but will reflect the view of the ALP Government.
Health Portfolio Expenditure
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, my question is addressed to the Treasurer, or to the Minister for Health if she is unable to answer it. I ask: What is the dollar amount that has actually been spent on the health portfolio in the year to date? I understand that there is a difference between that and the amount that was detailed in the monthly statements that have been tabled in the Assembly, in that those figures reflect some discounting through the business rules which the Minister was kind enough to produce the other day. Given that there is a difference between those two sets of figures, I ask: What is the dollar amount that has actually been spent on the health portfolio in the year to date?
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