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We reiterate our profound concern and disappointment about your decision to relocate the ILC to Weston Creek Community Health Centre and about your recent handling of accommodation arrangements for our Service. As ACT Minister for Community Services we anticipated and expected that you would have responded more adequately than you have done to the needs of WCCS.
Yours sincerely,
That letter is signed by the chairperson and the director of Weston Creek Community Service. I think it is a very great shame that Mr Collaery, in the course of the discussion of a matter of public importance on Tuesday, first of all, misrepresented my views and, on a personal basis, completely misrepresented the position that I put forward on behalf of this service. I think it is an even greater shame that this Assembly - or rather the Government members opposite - denied me the opportunity to make appropriate statements in regard to that misrepresentation, and denied me the opportunity to table this letter as I sought to do earlier.
Weston Creek Community Service
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General and Minister for Housing and Community Services) (6.00): I take this opportunity to rise in the adjournment debate to talk about the Opposition's response and attitude to the Weston Creek issues. Ms Follett has read a letter. In fact, I am quite happy for that letter to be in the record. It demonstrates that I responded - - -
Ms Follett: You were not earlier.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: It is in the record. Do you table that letter too, Ms Follett?
Ms Follett: I was denied leave to table it, Mr Deputy Speaker.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Deputy Speaker, Ms Follett sought, under standing order 46, to disrupt the business of this house, and she effectively delayed substantive ministerial statements through her posturing on this issue at the wrong hour of the day. I am pleased that that letter is in the record. It indicates that the very next day I responded to a community representation. I went out there. I was given a sublease by the assistant director. I spoke to other people there. I inspected the Weston Creek health precinct. I went to various rooms of the place which I know. And I indicated that the Government was looking at all of the options relating to the accommodation of the centre.
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