Page 4366 - Week 15 - Tuesday, 19 November 1991
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Mr Kaine: Yes, we did.
MS FOLLETT: Mr Kaine suggests that he did address them. I do not think we are seeing the results of that. The fact is that the concerns that are now being expressed could have been expressed at any point during the Alliance's term of government. I find it strange that Alliance members are now raising these issues as though they knew nothing about them. They did have 18 months to address them.
Nevertheless, the question Mr Collaery has raised of apprenticeship schemes particularly is one that concerns me and one upon which I have had discussions with various representatives of the housing industry. I will be giving consideration to ways in which we can alleviate any disadvantage to people under different sorts of apprenticeship schemes, if I can put it that way. It is my intention that anybody in an apprenticeship scheme or anybody taking on an apprentice should not be disadvantaged simply because of the scheme that apprentice is under. I am examining that issue.
MR COLLAERY: As a supplementary question: In view of your predicted response, Chief Minister, that you will look only at the apprenticeship side of the equation - - -
Ms Follett: That is all you asked me about.
MR COLLAERY: I talked about youth unemployment. In view of the fact that youth unemployment has sustained itself at close to 20 per cent for the last two years and that clearly urgent and reformist measures are available, will you commit your Government to examining whether we can now re-examine the payroll tax issue that this Assembly looked at in 1989 with a view to determining whether, on a dollar for dollar basis, we are not better off asking those employers to put a proportion into youth and trainee employment to relieve the budget of our other direct costs of sustaining youth unemployment?
MS FOLLETT: The gist of Mr Collaery's question really escapes me. Perhaps I had better take that last part of it on notice. I think I have addressed the first part of his question. If I may take it on notice, I will get back to him on it.
Draft Territory Plan
MR MOORE: My question is to Mr Wood as Minister for Planning, and I gave him some hours' notice. There has been a considerable amount of community concern surrounding the very short time constituents have to respond to the draft Territory Plan, particularly since it is over 700 pages, including the written statement and the planning report. What are you planning to do to ensure that
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