Page 2886 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 14 August 2019
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Questions without notice
Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate—health unit
MR COE: My question is to the Chief Minister. Minister, your directorate had a health unit looking at prevention and innovation. Does this unit still exist, and what were the key achievements of this unit?
MR BARR: Yes, this particular area did coordinate some whole-of-government activities across multiple agencies. It was reported on in the annual report for the relevant year. Some of its work has been informing the wellbeing indicators project.
MR COE: Why was this unit located in your directorate rather than in one of the two health agencies? Does this health prevention unit still exist by that name?
MR BARR: As I said, it was in fact coordinating a whole-of-government response to healthy and active living that incorporated work across a number of different directorates, sport and recreation, for example, and health prevention. I do not believe that it does currently exist under that title and, as I have indicated, a lot of its work has informed the work on the wellbeing indicators.
MRS DUNNE: Chief Minister, what is the total annual cost of running this unit, and have any of the staff been transferred out of this unit into the Health Directorate or vice versa?
MR BARR: I will take that question on notice.
Disability—access
MS LE COUTEUR: My question is to the Minister for Disability and relates to disability access. What mechanisms will the government use to incorporate lived experience from people with disability needs into transport and urban planning to address disability access issues?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I thank Ms Le Couteur for the question but I think that, given that it is very specific to transport and city services, it is actually a question for the Minister for Transport and City Services. Nevertheless, I can give an answer in relation to the mechanisms that the government has in place.
Of course a major mechanism is the disability reference group which has a majority of people with disability, carers and family members. That brings the lived experience of people with disability into government policy across the board. The disability reference group establishes its own priority areas in which it works year on year in terms of its work plan but is also available for government to seek advice on and it determines its input into various consultations across the whole of the government.
MS LE COUTEUR: What is the actual role of the disability reference group, and how often does it provide advice on access issues relating to transport and urban planning?
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