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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 14 Hansard (11 December) . . Page.. 4955 ..


PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT ACT
Papers and Ministerial Statement

MRS CARNELL (Chief Minister): For the information of members, I present, pursuant to sections 31A and 79 of the Public Sector Management Act 1994, copies of contracts made with Brian Johnston (long-term contract), Andrew Clark (long-term contract), John Robertson (long-term contract), Phillip Thompson (both long- and short-term contracts), Alan Towill (both long- and short-term contracts), Miriam Jamieson (short-term contract and performance agreement), Elizabeth Fowler (Schedule D variation), Annabelle Pegrum (new performance agreement), Moiya Ford (new performance agreement), Hans Sommer (new performance agreement), Phil Sadler (new performance agreement) and Michael Tidball (new performance agreement). I ask for leave of the Assembly to make a short statement with regard to these contracts.

Leave granted.

MRS CARNELL: The important issue with these contracts is to respect the confidentiality of those people who have personal details in the contracts. I am confident that the Assembly will continue to respect that.

PATIENT ACTIVITY DATA
Papers

MRS CARNELL (Chief Minister and Minister for Health and Community Care): For the information of members, I present information bulletins relating to patient activity data for Calvary Public Hospital and the Canberra Hospital for October 1997.

SOCIAL POLICY - STANDING COMMITTEE
Report on Inquiry into the Adequacy of Mental Health Services -
Government Response

MRS CARNELL (Chief Minister and Minister for Health and Community Care) (3.59): Mr Speaker, for the information of members, I present the Government's response to the Standing Committee on Social Policy Report No. 6, entitled "Inquiry into the Adequacy of Mental Health Services", which was presented to the Assembly on 25 September 1997. I move:

That the Assembly takes note of the paper.

It is my pleasure to table the Government's response to the report of the Standing Committee on Social Policy on the inquiry into the adequacy of mental health services. The Social Policy Committee's report was tabled on 25 September. The report contains 20 recommendations, all of which the Government has addressed or soon will be addressing. I am disappointed that the committee did not give the Government sufficient


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