Page 2997 - Week 08 - Thursday, 15 August 2019
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I went out and visited the supermarket site in Denman Prospect earlier this year. It was, I thought, a pretty good supermarket and I was impressed by the operation there. Obviously the supermarket owner could not see it working. They are now vacating that site, and I understand from the owner of the centre that there will be a new leaseholder there very shortly.
MS LE COUTEUR: Minister, will land release in the Molonglo group centre be the answer? Will it be brought forward to give the local community a chance of having a full-sized supermarket within the next three years?
MR GENTLEMAN: I will take that on notice in regard to the timing of the release for the full-sized supermarket.
MRS JONES: Minister, what have you done about the state of local supermarkets in both Denman Prospect and Coombs, where residents regularly experience difficulties in buying what they want?
MR GENTLEMAN: We have had many conversations with the local community about the services that could be provided in those areas.
Mrs Jones interjecting—
MR GENTLEMAN: I am sorry, I did not hear the interjection.
Mrs Jones: The shopkeeper at Coombs has never met you.
MR GENTLEMAN: It is, of course, important that we provide whatever services we can for the residents of those new areas. We will work with the owners of those shopping centres to the best of our ability to be able to get people on board to work in the areas.
Transport Canberra—weekend bus services
MISS C BURCH: My question is to the minister for transport. Minister, in addition to hiring more bus drivers, are you making changes to the enterprise agreement in order to address the ongoing issues plaguing the weekend bus network?
MR STEEL: No, not at this stage. In response to Miss Burch’s question, we are looking at a range of different options. The focus is on recruiting more drivers. At this stage we are not looking at changing the enterprise agreement. We are seeing what options are available to us to meet reliability issues on the weekend by increasing the number of drivers, in addition to a range of other options.
MISS C BURCH: Minister, are there plans to cut weekend services because of the staffing issues you have been unable to resolve?
MR STEEL: As I just mentioned, the government is looking at a range of different issues to make sure that we provide reliability for weekend services. The focus for us
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