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produced and any additional work will be planned and dealt with in a timely manner.

Maintenance for electrical switchboards to Active Canberra buildings/facilities is undertaken as required. Switchboards are regularly checked by electricians contracted to the venues.

Maintenance to Territory Venues is undertaken as required and includes thermal image inspections.

Further, the member may wish to refer to information provided by the Chief Minister in Question on Notice 205-207 and 209-234.

c) Visual inspections of the main switchboards are carried out regularly by ACT Health Facilities Management staff and ACT Property Group contractors.

For further information, you may wish to refer to information provided by the Chief Minister in his response to Questions on Notice 205–207 and 209–234.

d) I have been advised by my directorate that the information sought is not in an easily retrievable form, and to collect and assemble the information sought solely for the purpose of answering the question would require considerable resources.

In this instance, I do not believe that it would be appropriate to divert resources from other priority activities for the purposes of answering the Member’s question. Further, you may wish to refer to information provided by the Chief Minister in his response to Questions on Notice 205–207 and 209–234.

Schools—enrolments
(Question No 287)

Mr Wall asked the Minister for Education and Early Childhood Development, upon notice, on 12 May 2017:

Can the Minister provide, concerning the technical issues caused by high demand on Canberra’s non-government school online enrolment system that occurred on Wednesday 26th April 2017, (a) what was the scope of the technical issues, (b) how many users were affected by these technical issues, (c) how many children were not enrolled due to these technical issues and (d) what has the Directorate done to prevent technical issues like this from happening in the future.

Ms Berry: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:

(1) Mr Wall asked a question regarding Canberra’s non-government school online enrolment system. As it was Canberra’s public school online enrolment application system that opened on Wednesday 26 April 2017, my answers will address enrolment for Canberra public schools.

a) The technical issues were due to overloading of the server.

b) Access Canberra identified 169 enrolment applications that were affected by the technical difficulties. Of the 169 applications, 104 connected with the identified technical difficulties subsequently lodged an online enrolment application. Of the


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