Page 160 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 17 February 1993
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Belconnen Remand Centre
MR CONNOLLY: Madam Speaker, I wish to give some supplementary information in answer to a question that Mr Humphries asked in question time this morning in relation to the inquiry at the Belconnen Remand Centre. The detainee made allegations that drugs and alcohol were given to and consumed by detainees. He did not make allegations that officers had consumed cannabis. The tests were done on the detainees. The process was that samples were taken and put into sealed bottles and, as is normal, other remand centre staff, not staff who were on duty on the previous day, signed the bottles.
The samples were then transferred to the analytical laboratory at Woden Valley Hospital. Woden Valley Hospital, in accordance with the ordinary practices, will not accept any samples if the seals have been broken. The process was as follows: Samples were taken at the remand centre by remand centre staff and placed into bottles which were signed by both the person who took the sample and the detainee. There would not have been an opportunity for the bottles to have been tampered with, unless the detainees themselves signed two seals. Of course, that is fairly easy to prove or disprove.
Mr Humphries: This is the following day?
MR CONNOLLY: The following day, yes, on the 26th.
Medicare Agreement
MR BERRY: Madam Speaker, in the course of question time Mrs Carnell raised a question on health matters. I will forward the text of her question to the Board of Health for their consideration.
PUBLIC WORKS AND SERVICES PROGRAM - TRANSFER OF FUNDS
Paper
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (3.05): Madam Speaker, for the information of members, I present the statement and schedule of the transfer of funds from the recurrent to the capital subdivision of the public works and services program, pursuant to section 49B of the Audit Act 1989, and move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Madam Speaker, the Audit Act 1989 provides for the effective financial management of the ACT Government Service and includes a number of provisions which enable appropriations to be varied in the course of the financial year. The Executive has approved a transfer of funds within the public works and services program in accordance with subsection 49(1) of the Audit Act. This section, amongst other matters, enables appropriated funds to be transferred between capital and recurrent items within a program.
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