Page 835 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 20 March 2019

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MR STEEL: Thank you. We put out an expression of interest process for people who wanted to get engaged in the square, and that continues to remain the case. I encourage anyone who wants to be involved in the pop-up to get involved by contacting the Woden experiment team. As part of that, we will be evaluating how the activation has actually worked. If it is successful, we will make the furniture activations permanent. But we also want to make sure that there is an ongoing suite of performances in this square to bring people down, whether it is to eat at a pop-up cafe or to enjoy the space with friends, play a bit of table tennis and see a performance.

ACT Emergency Services Agency—consultation

MRS JONES: My question is to the Minister for Police and Emergency Services. On 13 March 2019 the meeting of the emergency services operational review group was cancelled with less than one hour’s notice. Why was the meeting cancelled?

MR GENTLEMAN: I do not have any detail of the cancellation of the meeting, so I will take that on notice and come back to the chamber.

MRS JONES: Minister, given that attendees were told that there may be an extension to the bushfire season, when did the ESA Commissioner first start considering an extension, and what is the outcome of those considerations?

MR GENTLEMAN: The commissioner advised me that he had considered the extension to the bushfire season due to the dry conditions. I have not got the particular date. I was briefed on it only on Monday, but I will come back to the chamber with those details.

MR HANSON: Minister, are you aware that the cancellation of the emergency services operational review group meeting was at such short notice that some members had arrived at ESA headquarters only to be told that the meeting would not proceed?

MR GENTLEMAN: Again, Madam Speaker, I will take that on notice.

ACT Emergency Services Agency—personnel

MRS DUNNE: My question is to the Minister for Police and Emergency Services. Minister, is someone currently performing the duties of the director of people and culture in the Emergency Services Agency?

MR GENTLEMAN: I imagine so. I do not have the detail in front of me of the minutiae of what occurs in our directorates, but I will take that on notice and come back to the chamber.

MRS DUNNE: When you take that on notice, minister, can you also inform the Assembly whether all ESA staff have been made aware of who is performing this high level executive role, given that you do not know who is doing it? And if not, why not?


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