Page 1547 - Week 05 - Thursday, 18 April 1991
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Mr Speaker, we do have the possibility of contracting prosthetic services to the private sector, as recommended by the Priorities Review Board inquiry. That particular possibility, as a way of easing some of our problems, will be explored in the context of a management improvement plan which is currently being administered by the Chief Minister's department. I can assure Mr Stevenson that that plan will be available within the next six months. I am sure it will go a long way towards easing some of the problems. As far as those other matters are concerned, such as the length of time on waiting lists, I will have to get back to Mr Stevenson.
Mr Kaine: Mr Speaker, I request that any further questions be placed on the notice paper.
Quarterly Financial Statement
MR KAINE: Yesterday I was asked a question without notice by the Leader of the Opposition concerning the Treasurer's quarterly financial statement for the period ended December 1990. I took that on notice because I could not recall the details. I called for a copy of the report, which I thought I had seen. I now have a copy of it. I did see this report some time ago. There appears to have been a failure to publish it. It will now appear in the Gazette on next Monday, 22 April. I table a copy of it for the information of members.
Belconnen Remand Centre
MR COLLAERY: I have an answer to a question. Mr Speaker, on 19 March Mr Stevenson asked a question regarding what seemed to be unnecessary expenditure of taxpayers' money concerning a training course recently completed at Warrambui for staff from the Belconnen Remand Centre. Mr Stevenson went on to ask a number of questions.
Mr Speaker, my answer to Mr Stevenson's question is that the training courses referred to are an essential adjunct to the construction of special care cells at Belconnen Remand Centre. Both have been designed to improve the quality of care and custody that we provide for behaviourally disturbed detainees. All custodial staff were required to undertake one of three courses. Each included sessions on basic descriptions of the various forms of mentally ill behaviour; strategies for dealing with those suffering from mental illness; the basics of psychiatric treatment programs; simulation exercises to practise new skills; and support networks available for mentally ill persons in the community. The courses were designed by newly appointed training and nursing staff and were delivered with the assistance of experts from interstate.
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