Page 5527 - Week 17 - Wednesday, 4 December 1991
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MRS NOLAN: Mr Speaker, I ask a supplementary question. I ask whether Mr Wood can ensure, then, that those people who currently do have horses agisted on that particular paddock are notified of what procedures are being put in place, because currently they are of the understanding that they must remove their horses and that there is nothing else available for them.
MR WOOD: I think that their expectation would be that a new place is to be provided. It is fair enough to expect that they be kept informed about that. There may be some difficulty in the interim period in locating their horses, but I will suggest to my officers that they advise the interested horse owners.
Ms Follett: I ask that further questions be placed on the notice paper.
Health Budget - Staff Reductions
MR BERRY: Yesterday, Mr Humphries asked a question in relation to staffing arrangements in Health. He will be pleased to know that, on my own initiative, I have sought some further information which he will certainly find helpful - and it might stop him complaining a bit.
Mr Humphries: I doubt it.
MR BERRY: Well, it will not stop him complaining, but I will give him the answer anyway. I started to give Mr Humphries this information earlier, but he stopped me. It seems as though he does not want it today.
The process of identifying the staff that must be shed to meet the budget savings will be finalised early in the new year. It is about 75 per cent complete now. This timetable will have all the staff identified in time to meet Health's budget target. Fifty-seven are in the process of accepting or have accepted voluntary redundancy. The remaining reduction not achieved through attrition will be met through redeployment to Calvary or elsewhere in the ACT Government Service, or possible further voluntary redundancies.
Policy Plan Changes
MR WOOD: Mr Speaker, I will have another go on a question, if I may. Yesterday Mr Jensen asked me for some details about the Planning Authority actually checking the areas proposed as investigation areas. It is a fairly long answer so, if I can, I will table that.
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