Page 2746 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 14 August 1990
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MRS GRASSBY: I have a supplementary question. Now that Dr Kinloch has it, will you provide this information to the rest of the community?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Acting Speaker, the information is largely on the public record. It details school capacities and the location of particular special education units at the Weetangera school, issues of that kind. None of these things are secret, so I very much doubt that Mrs Grassby would be much edified by my producing any information which is already publicly available.
Office of Public Sector Management
MR STEVENSON: My question is to the Chief Minister, Trevor Kaine: at a time when spending cuts are most important, how can one branch called corporate development be retitled Office of Public Sector Management and receive sympathetic approval to expand by four senior executive service positions costing about half a million dollars?
MR KAINE: I am very happy to answer this question, Mr Acting Speaker. The Office of Public Sector Management is a new organisation created to assist the Government in implementing the very great infrastructural change that has to be undertaken over the next five years of this Government and, in fact, it involves no new positions at all.
I have undertaken, and I am abiding by my undertaking, that structural changes of the ACT Administration will result in less jobs, not more. These positions are simply a transfer to positions that already exist in other places in the administration.
Therapy Centre
MR CONNOLLY: Mr Acting Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister for Education. Is it the case, Minister, that parents of the South Curtin Therapy Centre have been advised that the centre will be moved in about 10 weeks' time? Where will the centre be relocated? Has its relocation been costed and what is that cost? What steps will you take to ensure that there is as little disruption as possible to the children of that centre while the centre is being moved?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Acting Speaker, I thank Mr Connolly for his question. It is a genuine attempt to obtain information, unlike many of the other questions I face from those opposite. In terms of the future of the Therapy Centre at the old South Curtin School, I can say I have also heard rumours that the place will be moving in 10 weeks' time. I find it extremely unlikely that that would be the case. It is - - -
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