Page 3199 - Week 10 - Thursday, 16 September 1993
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Mr Connolly: All you have identified is the asbestos program houses.
MR DE DOMENICO: No, that is all you have identified.
MS FOLLETT: I can assure members that the figures which are in the budget documents are well founded. There is no doubt about that. We do indeed expect to increase by over $8m the take on land sales. That is based on advice to the Government from people within our own agencies who are expert in this area.
Mr Kaine: The question was not about land sales.
Mr De Domenico: It was not about land sales. You said "over and above".
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Let the Chief Minister answer the question.
MS FOLLETT: I am aware that the Minister responsible has offered to provide further information. I will certainly take up that offer and make it available to members.
MR DE DOMENICO: I ask a supplementary question, Madam Speaker. The Chief Minister said $11m "over and above land sales".
Mr Wood: Yes.
MR DE DOMENICO: Land sales do not come into it, Mr Wood. I ask the Chief Minister in a supplementary question: Which assets, which schools, which Housing Trust properties? That is what you said. You said "over and above land sales". Where is the $8.1m over and above what is found in the budget? What are you selling?
MS FOLLETT: If I may, I will refer that question to Mr Wood, who is the Minister responsible.
MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, the Government puts out over a period, and updates, a land development program that lists the land we are selling around the Territory, mostly for residential purposes, but there are areas of land we sell for other purposes. As part of the budget process, we looked at further areas of land. There is some that would be for potential commercial use. We identified areas of land we have that are no longer required for our purposes. Those are the areas of land that I fully expect are part of that statement, and I will provide Mr De Domenico and the Assembly with that list.
Adolescent Ward
MS SZUTY: My question without notice is to the Minister for Health, Mr Berry, and refers to a motion passed in this Assembly on 16 September last year, which stated:
That the ACT Government should establish ... an adolescent unit as part of the hospital redevelopment project.
Given that no funding for the adolescent ward is identified in the Government's 1993-94 budget, when does the Minister expect that this decision of the Assembly will be implemented?
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