Page 2557 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 15 November 1989
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The Government has undertaken to rectify this by implementing the integrated hospital system over a period of five to seven years, to which Mr Humphries referred, and it is important to note that the estimated expenditure of $200m to $210m is to be spread over a number of years. It will not directly impact on any one financial period but will be undertaken, along with other government priorities, within the framework of the ongoing capital works program. So it is quite unfair to look at the project in a short-term, narrow way.
Detailed planning on the implementation of the restructuring proposals will be carried out over the period of the next year and, as I have advised Assembly members previously, we are negotiating with the Commonwealth over its financial contribution to rectify the run-down conditions of the hospital, and I would expect that those negotiations would continue over the period that it takes to implement the hospital redevelopment. In terms of a response from the Prime Minister on the issue, I would refer that to the Chief Minister.
Use of School Buildings
DR KINLOCH: My question is to Mr Whalan in his role as Minister for Education. Mr Whalan, I need to put two schools together here - the former Pearce Primary School and the former Fisher Primary School. I understand that at least 22 organisations are interested in being located at the former Pearce Primary School. Can the Minister advise when a decision will be made on the use of the school?
I have one particular constituent group that has a problem. As vandalism is occurring at the Fisher Primary School, where Gaudeamus has some space, would it be possible to locate some of the 22 organisations at the Fisher school in order to deter vandals who might be put off if the school appeared to be fully utilised? Gaudeamus, which is there by itself, has been vandalised.
MR WHALAN: Mr Speaker, I thank Dr Kinloch for the question. The situation in relation to the school buildings that have been vacated as a result of the amalgamation of the schools is that the Government is undertaking a period of consultation through the planning processes. Members will be aware from earlier discussion on this that those schools which had been made vacant by the amalgamations have been advertised for comment by the community in relation to their potential use in the future. There has been some indication of the Government's preferred range of uses in that process.
That process of consultation is still continuing. The draft variations to the plan were released in August, and quite a substantial number of submissions have been
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