Page 712 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 12 March 1991
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MR MOORE: I have a supplementary question. Would not the consequent need to move the Therapy Centre to a different location - you have nominated Holder Primary School - mean that that site cannot now be sold? How will this affect the expected savings from the school reshaping program, and to what extent are you going to blame the community for this?
Mr Collaery: You are mixing recurrent with capital.
MR HUMPHRIES: Yes, I think the Deputy Chief Minister has hit the nail on the head here; Mr Moore is confusing recurrent with capital. The sale of land at the site of the Holder Primary School can still proceed. There is no reason for the entire site to be locked up merely because the Holder Primary School building is being used to accommodate the Therapy Centre or, for that matter, the Therapy Centre and other tenants.
In my estimation something up to or perhaps beyond two-thirds of the total land available at Holder Primary could be used for that sort of purpose. It could be sold and developed, for example, as medium density housing. So there is no question of locking up the entire site. It is also possible that the remainder of the space at Holder Primary School could be used in a productive fashion to ensure that there is no overall loss to the Government because of the change in its plans. I think that, rather than announce what they could be, I should wait until the Government forms more definite plans on that.
The other point, of course, is that with the retention of the building it is possible to consider other variations on the arrangements of services. The Government is considering whether there would not be a convenient and positive collocation of other services that are akin to the Therapy Centre into the same building, the Holder Primary School building, into which we are locating the Therapy Centre. In other words, there may be convenient collocation of services in such a way that we enhance the quality of those services and perhaps make space available elsewhere which could then be disposed of, either to be let out to somebody else or even sold.
Weston Creek Health Centre
MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts. Minister, will you give a firm and final commitment on the fate of the Weston Creek Health Centre building? Since the current tenants have not been consulted on the current proposal to move the Independent Living Centre there, will the Minister undertake to start this process?
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