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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 2 Hansard (27 February) . . Page.. 578 ..
MR BERRY (continuing):
(c) to promote research into psychiatric illness;
(d) to assist in the training and education of persons who have a psychiatric illness;
(e) to consult with voluntary agencies and self-help, ethnic and other appropriate groups to ensure the provision of appropriate mental health services;
(f) to make reports and recommendations to the Minister with respect to matters affecting the provision of treatment, care, control, accommodation, maintenance and protection for persons who have a psychiatric illness;
(g) to promote informed public opinion on matters of mental health by publishing reports and information concerning mental health and to promote public understanding of and involvement in measures for the prevention and treatment of psychiatric illness and the treatment, care, control, rehabilitation and protection of persons who have a psychiatric illness.
Clearly, Mr Speaker, the legislation requires that the Director of Mental Health Services have those powers. He runs the Mental Health Service. He has not been appointed.
Mrs Carnell: He has. I just tabled it.
MR BERRY: Mrs Carnell claims that the executive director she has appointed - an administrative position - has those powers. He clearly does not, and she is ignoring the legislation.
Ministerial Statement
MR KAINE (Minister for Urban Services): Mr Speaker, I seek leave of the Assembly to make a short statement in connection with an inquiry into ACTION bus services and to table the terms of reference for that inquiry.
Leave granted.
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, following my announcement of 18 February about an independent review of ACTION services, I am pleased to now give the Assembly full details of the review and its terms of reference. The aim of the review is to assess whether ACTION services are responding to community needs, and in making this assessment the Government wants to address a number of issues. They are:
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