Page 2747 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 14 August 1990
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Mr Berry: Yes or no. Is it, or is not it? Do not be dodgy. You are a dodgy person. You choose your words very carefully. Just be straight.
MR ACTING SPEAKER: Order, Mr Berry! Let him answer Mr Connolly's question.
MR HUMPHRIES: Those opposite, Mr Acting Speaker, seek information straightaway because they want the Government to make peremptory decisions that affect the lives of people without proper consultation. That is what they want. I refuse to be put in that position. I intend to make sure that before I make an announcement about a decision I have canvassed carefully the options before me and the Government and have ensured that the people affected by the decision have, to the best of my ability, been consulted about it.
I propose to talk very carefully to the people at that centre, to the people who run the centre and to the people who use it, before I make a decision about the location of that school. I find it highly unlikely that the school will be required to move in 10 weeks' time. I can, however, assure Mr Connolly and those opposite that the school will be moved in such a fashion as to preserve all the benefits and all the quality that is inherent within the Therapy Centre. I am quite confident that these benefits will not be lost.
Mr Berry: How much will it cost?
MR HUMPHRIES: If Mr Berry would be silent, he might allow me to get to that part of the question. I have already indicated very carefully and very clearly that I will not be entering into the process of debating the costs of the Government's decision. There will be an announcement made in the budget context. Mr Berry and those opposite cannot be surprised to hear that answer. However, I can indicate, as I have said before, that the cost of re-establishing a school in the South Curtin building could be as high as half a million dollars.
Tuggeranong Schoolhouse
MR JENSEN: Mr Acting Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister for Urban Services in his capacity as Minister responsible for heritage matters at the moment.
Members interjected.
MR ACTING SPEAKER: Order, members! Let Mr Jensen ask his question.
MR JENSEN: I refer, Mr Duby, to the issues related to the long-term lease and conservation of the Tuggeranong
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