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recommendations are part of ongoing Government activity or complement existing strategies. Others, such as a review of kangaroo management in rural areas, are already the subject of Government actions, and the standing committee's recommendations will be taken into consideration in formulating a Government position.
With respect to cat management, an integrated package is supported. However, the Government firmly believes that an analysis of the research this Government is currently funding on the impact of cats on native fauna in the ACT and a review of measures implemented elsewhere are critical prior to the implementation of a costly cat registration system. This Government also considers that an understanding of community views on cat management is important in the development of legislative, as well as educative, approaches to responsible cat ownership. It is therefore proposed to undertake a community survey on this issue in mid-1995. The ACT Parks and Conservation Service will develop by the end of 1995 an issues paper on cats which will include the results of the community survey.
On the broader issue of pest plant control, an ACT weeds strategy is to be developed in 1994-95. The preparation of this strategy is being jointly funded by the Commonwealth, through a save the bush grant, and the ACT Government. This strategy will form the basis of an integrated approach to weed management for the next decade. The findings of the standing committee will be extremely valuable in the development of this strategy.
Madam Speaker, in concluding my statement on the Government's response to the standing committee's report on feral animals and invasive plants, I would like to thank the committee for their obvious interest in this issue, which indeed is an issue for the whole community to address, and the effort the committee has put into the development of the report put before us in March this year. I table, for the information of the standing committee and Assembly members generally, a more detailed Government response to the report.
Debate (on motion by Ms Ellis) adjourned.
EUTHANASIA - SELECT COMMITTEE
Report on Voluntary and Natural Death Bill 1993
Debate resumed from 14 April 1994, on motion by Mr Moore:
That the report be noted.
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General and Minister for Health) (11.20): The Select Committee on Euthanasia made three recommendations: Firstly, that a suitably qualified pain management specialist be appointed to the public hospital services of the Territory; secondly, that the Voluntary and Natural Death Bill 1993 not be proceeded with and the order of the day for the resumption of the debate on the question "That this Bill be agreed to in principle" be discharged from the notice paper; and, thirdly,
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