Page 295 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 31 May 1989
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as possible so as not to cause upset to the member who is speaking.
Sitting suspended from 12.11 pm to 2.30 pm
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
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ACT FUNDING
MR HUMPHRIES: I refer the Chief Minister to an article in the "Chronicle" of 30 May, yesterday, on page 43, entitled "ACT 'naive' in funding negotiations". The comments in that article are attributed to Mr Barry Reid, who was a member of the former ACT House of Assembly and an ALP candidate at the recent, or not so recent, election. I quote from that article:
The ACT 'could not have done any worse' out of the recent Premiers Conference and public officials have been 'naive' in their negotiations with the Commonwealth over funding arrangements for the Territory.
Does the Chief Minister accept that she was one of the public officials Mr Reid referred to as "naive", and do Mr Reid's comments hit the mark?
MS FOLLETT: Yes, I am aware of that article. I saw it in the "Chronicle". It is the personal view of Mr Reid; it has no other standing whatsoever as the view of my party or of this Government. It is his personal view and not one that, as I understand it, is shared by many other people at all.
PUBLIC HOUSING
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I would like to address a question to the Minister for Housing and Urban Services, particularly in view of the interest that she is showing in public housing, in particular in the inquiry that has now been instituted into that subject. Can the Minister tell us how many Housing Trust houses are currently vacant, how long they have been vacant, how much longer they will remain vacant, and what are the reasons why they are not currently occupied?
MRS GRASSBY: I would like to take that question on notice because I do not have the figures right at my fingertips. I will be able to give them to you tomorrow.
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