Page 1093 - Week 04 - Thursday, 29 March 1990
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MR BERRY: Relevant, but you do not know what they are.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Berry!
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Berry knows full well that the same sources, the same firm of quantity surveyors, the same advisers in many respects who developed figures for me developed them for him as well, so I do not know why he casts aspersions on those people and those figures. In terms of not having a centre of excellence in obstetrics let me point out that at present there are three centres in Canberra where obstetric services are provided: Calvary, Woden Valley and Royal Canberra.
Ms Follett: On a point of order, Mr Speaker, this is not relevant to the question.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, Mr Berry asked me about a centre of excellence in obstetrics. I am answering the question.
MR SPEAKER: Point of order overruled. You have been supported, Mr Humphries; please get on with the answer.
MR HUMPHRIES: As I was pointing out, there are three centres presently in Canberra where obstetric services are provided. After the Government has proceeded with this development and the development is in place, there will still be three centres. How there can be any diminution of that principle of a centre of excellence, how there can be any downgrading of obstetric services in those circumstances is quite beyond me.
Kaleen North Playing Fields
MR STEFANIAK: My question is to Mr Duby, the Minister for Urban Services. Mr Duby a sports pavilion at Kaleen North playing fields was promised to the rugby league clubs of north Canberra for the start of the 1990 season. It has still not been built. When will it be?
A member: Who made the promise?
MR DUBY: I thank Mr Stefaniak for that interesting question. I heard that interjection, "Who made the promise?". Undoubtedly it was the previous Labor Government. Mr Stefaniak is quite correct. I understand that the original program, in liaison with the sport and recreation area, nominated a project completion date for those pavilions of June 1990. I believe that there is quite a problem there because those facilities are constantly used over the weekend by rugby league organisations and junior rugby league players - under sixes through to under 18s - who, at the end of their games, have nowhere to shower because there are no ablution blocks. I believe that they are currently using the Kaleen Primary
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