Page 3360 - Week 09 - Thursday, 22 August 2019
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MR WALL: Minister, have you, any other minister or representatives of your departments met with the Woden Early Childhood Centre about this issue and, if so, when?
MR STEEL: I have written in relation to this to the Woden Early Childhood Centre and I am happy to come back on notice to provide any advice in relation to that. But, as I said, the planning process is underway and as part of the planning we will consider the traffic impacts on neighbouring services and the community. So I am confident in that process going ahead. That is a process that is ongoing, so if those discussions have not been had there is still an opportunity, I am sure, for that to occur. But, as I said also in my first answer, this is actually a building that is owned by the CIT, not Property Group. It will be transferred and at that point it will become the responsibility of Property Group.
MISS C BURCH: Minister, have you met with families from the Woden Early Childhood Centre, and what arrangements will you put in place to protect children and their families from disadvantage during the building process?
MR STEEL: It is too early to pre-empt the outcomes of the planning process that is underway. I have not met with families from the early childhood centre. It is not a centre that is in my portfolio. But I am certainly aware of the concerns that have been raised in relation to traffic, and I have raised that with Property Group. No doubt they will be communicating that through the planning process that is taking place and that should take place in accordance with legislation.
Hospitals—emergency department performance
MISS C BURCH: My question is to the Minister for Health. Minister, on 12 August 2019, in answer to an estimates question taken on notice and tabled in the Assembly after question time on 20 August, which asked how our emergency departments performed against their target in the fourth quarter of 2018-19, you said, “The fourth quarter performance is not likely to be significantly different compared to quarter 3, given the early flu season.” Yet, in question time on 20 August, you took on notice a question on the same subject. Minister, why did your knowledge on this issue decline between 12 August and 20 August?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I thank Miss Burch for the question. I cannot recall the specific detail of the question I was asked on 20 August. As members will be well aware, I have a practice of taking questions on notice when I do not have the specific detail in front of me. I do not know if the question asked on that day was the exact same question I was asked on notice. I took that question on notice, and that is my practice when I do not have the information in front of me, or in my head.
MISS C BURCH: Minister, how did ED performance rate against targets in the third quarter of 2018-19?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I will take that question on notice.
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