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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 9 Hansard (4 September) . . Page.. 2931 ..

MS REILLY: I would have liked my question answered, Mr Speaker. I asked why there had been so many different providers. The last provider finished providing services at the end of June when the funding ceased. What is going to happen to the young people who are using that service while you get around to setting up yet another youth health service in the ACT, or do you not care about services for youth in the health area?

MRS CARNELL: I think I made the point just a minute ago that I am confident that announcements that will be made in the very near future - - -

Ms Reilly: What about the young people who have no health service?

MR SPEAKER: Order!

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, we have been having quite in-depth discussions with the Youth Coalition with regard to having a coordinated youth health service in the ACT - something that we have not had in the way that they have suggested in the proposal that they have put forward, I understand, in cooperation with all the youth health groups. It is a very innovative approach and I believe that it is going to be very successful. We have agreed to go ahead, but some of the peripheral issues need to be bedded down. I am confident that when those opposite see the final proposal they will be as impressed as I am. If they are still concerned, they should speak to the Youth Coalition directly. I think it is one of the most exciting proposals we have seen in the area of youth. It shows a sector, particularly the Youth Coalition as the overarching body in the area, being extraordinarily proactive; going out there and looking for opportunities and coming back with a proposal that I believe will significantly help the very real issues that youth face in the ACT.

I ask that all further questions be placed on the notice paper.

MR STEFANIAK: Mr Speaker, yesterday Ms Reilly asked me to provide some details about the recently established Housing Advisory Committee. The committee has been established to provide the Government with strategic advice on a broad range of housing issues. As I indicated yesterday, I have already referred a number of issues to the committee for their objective advice. The membership of the committee has been widely drawn from industry and the community, with members selected on the basis of their personal knowledge and expertise rather than on a purely representative basis. I table, Mr Speaker, the terms of reference, together with the membership and where those particular people come from. Further to that, Mr Speaker, I did check to see whether we had a formal launch. We do not appear to have done so, although the committee is doing some excellent work; so I am happy to arrange that, and I am even quite happy to invite Ms Reilly to come along to it.

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