Page 2387 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 6 August 1991
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School Enrolments - Tuggeranong Valley
MRS NOLAN: Mr Speaker, my question is addressed to Mr Wood in his capacity as Minister for Education. I refer to the projected school enrolments in the Tuggeranong Valley. In relation to both primary schools and high schools, are these figures now available? Do these enrolment figures indicate the need for the opening of the Condor Primary School at the beginning of the 1993 school year, instead of the middle of that year? Will the school be ready for such an opening at the start of 1993?
MR WOOD: The matters concerning enrolments of these students are being closely monitored. I suppose a little extra variable is being punched in now, with the development of Gungahlin. Planners cannot be quite sure about the rate of development in southern Tuggeranong, because Gungahlin is coming on stream. We have to weigh up just when those enrolments will take place. I can tell you that that school will be ready to go on stream when it is needed. We are aware that timing is important, and arrangements are in hand, as we refine our statistics, so that planning commences at an appropriate time.
MRS NOLAN: I have a supplementary question. When will the projected enrolments for the entire Tuggeranong Valley be available for both high schools and primary schools?
MR WOOD: I will get those to you as soon as I can. They will be in draft form, in a sense, because of the conditions that I indicated to you; but I will certainly dig those out and forward them to you as soon as I possibly can.
Health Services
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, my question is directed to Wayne Berry as Minister for Health, and it refers to the matter to which Ms Follett alluded briefly a short while ago, about the decimation by Gary Humphries of the community health centres. On a number of occasions, Mr Berry, you have espoused a very sensible notion that preventive medicine is important, especially to long-term budgetary savings and the long-term health of our community. What then will be your approach to, firstly, facilitating the role of community nurses in getting out into the community; secondly, undoing the damage of the Alliance Government in closing down community health centres in neighbourhoods so that parents without vehicles, particularly mothers with young babies, can no longer access them; and, thirdly, safeguarding the school dental services program?
Mr Kaine: This is one that you can really get your teeth into, Wayne.
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