Page 3691 - Week 12 - Thursday, 13 October 1994
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I come back to it again: If the neonatal cots and the 10 extra renal dialysis beds were added to the end of the financial year figures - and we know that they were not, because I have given you the figures that they were not added in with the end of August figures; and the department says that they were not added in with the end of August figures - you would have to add an extra 20 beds onto the 562 that existed at the end of August. That means, supposedly, according to the department's own figures, that we had 560 at the end of June and 592 at the end of August. That just shows the joke of accepting what you have just accepted.
Question resolved in the negative.
STUDY TRIP
Paper
MADAM SPEAKER: For the information of members, I present the following paper:
Study Trip - Report by Mr T. Kaine, MLA - 16th Annual Conference, Australasian Study of Parliament Group, Darwin, Northern Territory, 6-7 October 1994.
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY - COMPUTER NETWORK
MADAM SPEAKER: Yesterday, Ms Szuty directed to me a question without notice concerning the implementation of the new computer network in the Legislative Assembly and asked who had the role of managing the installation of this computer network from the Assembly's perspective and what was the duration of the appointment.
Members may recall that the Assembly's computer system has been upgraded gradually over a number of years. In May 1993, the ACT Government Computing Service, ACTGCS, completed a report on an information technology strategic plan for the ACT Legislative Assembly, following extensive consultation with members and their officers. At a meeting on 1 June 1993, the Standing Committee on Administration and Procedures considered the report and resolved that the report be circulated to all members, indicating that it would be regarded as a guiding document for information technology development in the Assembly and asking for comment before the end of July 1993. The networking that was the subject of Ms Szuty's question is one of the stages of that plan.
As with the installation of other equipment in the Legislative Assembly, the officer overseeing the installation is the Serjeant-at-Arms. The Assembly has contracted Cyberdyne Open Systems to install the equipment. A representative of the firm has been in attendance in the Assembly since the installation began on 29 September, to respond promptly to any problems encountered during the installation and to assist members and staff. That representative will remain until the completion of the installation process, after which time a telephone help line will remain in operation to assist users.
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