Page 1348 - Week 07 - Thursday, 24 August 1989
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MRS GRASSBY: No, I do not find it an embarrassing document because we will be doing as much as we possibly can in the ACT, but we will be working with the Federal Government on that.
Food Preparation
MR BERRY: I would like to respond to a question that was placed on notice on 22 August by Mr Humphries. The question was in connection with the allocation of $234,000 in the initial budget statement for the extension of analytical and surveillance services associated with food preparation. He asked whether there will be any additional staff positions created from this allocation?
The answer is as follows: The initial allocation of $234,000 allows for five extra staff to be employed in the second half of this financial year, when it is expected that the new food legislation will be in operation, and continuing each year thereafter. These additional staff will be employed in the Analytical Laboratory and the Health Surveillance Service. The initial allocation of $234,000 allows for $65,000 for these five additional staff, $30,000 in other operating costs and $139,000 for capital for new equipment needed to carry out the extra scientific work. I table the answer to the question, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Berry.
ACT PUBLIC HOSPITAL REDEVELOPMENT - STEERING COMMITTEE REPORT
Ministerial Statement and Papers
MR BERRY (Minister for Community Services and Health) (3.06): I seek leave of the Assembly to make a ministerial statement in relation to the report of the ACT Public Hospital Redevelopment Steering Committee.
MR SPEAKER: Is leave granted?
Mr Kaine: Yes, indeed. This is what we have been waiting for.
MR SPEAKER: Leave is granted.
MR BERRY: I must say that I fell for Mr Kaine's eager expectations in relation to this and that is one of the reasons why it is here today, so that he can study it closely.
In October 1988, the Hon. Clyde Holding MP, the Minister for Arts and Territories in the Federal Parliament, commissioned Dr Brendan Kearney, chief executive of the
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