Page 1092 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 20 March 1991
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I also think it will be a quite satisfactory response in terms of the level of service being provided to those who have to travel on buses and the degree of additional infrastructure that will be laid down for those children travelling between those two schools. So I am not concerned about that. I think it is a matter that parents ultimately will see great benefit in, and I think that when those facts are clearly laid before those parents there will be less concern about this matter.
School Closures - Task Force on Traffic and Safety
MR MOORE: It is quite timely that my question should follow the last one. I believe that it ought to be addressed to Mr Humphries, but if in fact Mr Duby is the appropriate person to answer this question I am quite relaxed about either person taking it. Was the establishment of a representative task force on traffic and safety associated with the travel of children between Lyons and South Curtin part of the agreement between Mr Duby on behalf of the Government, the Chief Minister's Department, the Trades and Labour Council of the ACT and Lyons parents which led to the lifting of community and TLC pickets at South Curtin Primary School in late January? Has the task force been established? If so, who are its members? If it has not been established, why not?
MR DUBY: It is clear that members on the other side of this house do not listen to the answers to questions. Mr Humphries, in the answer given not 30 seconds ago, advised that meetings have been going on between representatives of my department, his ministry and parents from the Lyons and Curtin primary schools. The issue at hand in all of those meetings has been the provision of safe access to children attending the South Curtin school, and the provision of a safe method of travel between the Lyons area generally and the South Curtin school. That group has been meeting now for, I believe, over a week; and, as Mr Humphries announced, government proposals in response to the specific requests that the parents had raised will be put, I believe, to a meeting tonight.
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, I ask a supplementary question. The question also asked who were the representatives of the P and C Council and Lyons Primary School on that particular task force.
MR DUBY: The actual names of the persons involved, I do not know. I suppose that next you will want me to give their phone numbers. I do not know their names. They are representatives of the P and Cs of the Lyons and Curtin schools.
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