Page 1526 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 27 September 1989
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MRS GRASSBY: Yes, that is true. We are replacing the system that is there at the moment, which is completely defunct and does not work any more, so much so that some people down one end of the flats are boiling to death and those at the other end are freezing. So it had to be replaced. It is not true that we did not look into gas heating. We did. When looking into gas heating and looking into electricity we found that it would not cost the tenants of the flats that much more, and they would also be able to turn the heating up and down as they wished.
Also, we have formed a tenants committee there. We had a meeting with the tenants committee just recently, and they are very happy with what we are doing. We are not having any complaints about it. So what you are reading in the paper is not quite correct. I can get you the whole details on it, if you would like, Mr Collaery, and you can read them.
MR COLLAERY: I have a supplementary question, Mr Deputy Speaker. In view of the fact that the Rally has been approached, or my colleague Mr Moore has been approached, by the spokesperson for that residents group with a complaint about this very matter, will the Minister undertake to get further advice to determine whether her advice is correct that the residents are satisfied?
MRS GRASSBY: I would be very happy to do that, Mr
Collaery, and let you know the very moment I find out.
Tuggeranong Community Arts Festival
MRS NOLAN: My question is to the Minister for Housing and Urban Services and it relates to the recent Tuggeranong Community Arts Festival. Could the Minister please explain why she informed the organisers of the festival only one or two days before the festival began of the amount of funding that they were going to receive?
MRS GRASSBY: I think I have already told Mrs Nolan, when she came to see me about that, that when it came across my desk it had to be agreed to by that time. As I said to Mrs Nolan at the time, if they were running a festival thinking that they were going to get money out of that fund, then I do not think they were very good at running a festival. I think that they should have organised themselves. If they had got the money, then it would have been a different matter. When I got the brief on my desk I went through it. Then they were rung up, three days before, I think it was, by one of the members of my staff and told the amount that they had. Normally, they would not have known then. They would have had to wait for a letter to go out, as everybody else did. But, because they had been ringing the office on and off and ringing other people, we rang them and paid
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