Page 2758 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 13 August 2019
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Debate interrupted in accordance with standing order 74 and the resumption of the debate made an order of the day for a later hour.
Sitting suspended from 12.00 to 2.00 pm.
Questions without notice
ACT Health—SPIRE project
MR COE: My question is to the Minister for Health. Minister, how many people were working full time on the SPIRE project in the directorate before it was transferred to the Major Projects team?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I thank Mr Coe for the question. I will take that question on notice. I indicated in my earlier comments that five people had transferred from the ACT Health Directorate to Major Projects Canberra to work on the project. I will take the question on notice as to how many of those people were specifically working on the SPIRE project.
I note that Mrs Dunne in her earlier comments talked about one person working full time. I thought that she was talking about Canberra Health Services at the time, and of course the infrastructure project was primarily the responsibility of the Health Directorate prior to the creation of Major Projects Canberra. But I will take the detail of the question on notice.
What I can assure the Assembly is that there is a project director in place at Major Projects Canberra, that those staff have transferred and that the project is well underway and on track.
MR COE: Separate to the actual number of staff, what capability was transferred from the directorate to Major Projects Canberra?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I may be able to answer that question if I can find the information. A team of five health planners and clinical liaison officers has transferred into the SPIRE project team under Major Projects Canberra from the Health Directorate. Their expertise, I imagine, is in health planning and clinical liaison, as those are their titles.
MRS DUNNE: Minister, what health planning expertise remains in the Health Directorate?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I thank Mrs Dunne for the supplementary question. There is a lot of health planning expertise remaining in the Health Directorate.
Employment—rights
MS LE COUTEUR: My question is to the Chief Minister and relates to employment conditions. Chief Minister, given the recent High Court case where the commonwealth government’s right to sack a public servant over anonymous tweets
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