Page 1128 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 22 August 1989
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MR WHALAN: The member, Mr Speaker, has quite consistently raised in this Assembly issues which he attributes to rumour and it has been a fairly consistent pattern of the Residents Rally party to base assertions on rumour. I think that it would be far more appropriate to raise matters of fact rather than questions of rumour.
Mr Moore: I rise on a point of order, Mr Speaker. The question was not answered.
MR SPEAKER: Deputy Chief Minister, would you like to follow that up, or have you decided that is the answer you would like to give?
Mr Kaine: Just expand on your answer a bit, Paul.
MR WHALAN: I have answered the question. I appreciate the invitation from the Leader of the Opposition to expand on my answer, but I think it is not fair to other members of the Assembly if all the time is taken up answering questions, based on rumour from Mr Moore.
Pialligo
MS MAHER: My question is directed to the Minister for Housing and Urban Services. Is she aware that residents of Pialligo have recently been slugged with a rate increase of almost 19 per cent? Is she also aware that those residents are not provided with services compatible with the rest of Canberra? For example, their roads are inadequate and full of potholes; they have no footpaths, and they have no ACTION bus service. Given these facts, what action is she going to take? Will she be cancelling the savage rate increases or are there plans to provide these essential services, and, if so, when?
MRS GRASSBY: I thank Ms Maher. Values for rating purposes are set by independent valuers, based on their perception of the value of the land. My department will investigate the problem of the roads, but it is not economically possible, and it never has been, to provide ACTION bus services to small enclave areas in Canberra, because there is very little use for them. But, as for the problem of roads, we will be definitely looking into that. I will have my department look into that.
Food Preparation
MR HUMPHRIES: My question is directed to the Minister for Community Services and Health. I refer him to the allocation of $234,000 in the budget initial statement for the extension of "analytical and surveillance services associated with food preparation". Is it intended that this
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