Page 2365 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 16 September 1992
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Ms Follett: Madam Speaker, I ask that further questions be placed on the notice paper.
Police Budget
MR CONNOLLY: Madam Speaker, during question time Mr Humphries asked for a breakdown on the police savings. Have you got a pencil there, Gary? The $950,000 is broken down to $522,000 for the disbandment of the central breathalyser unit; $87,000 this financial year for voluntary attendance at court, or VATAC, which will expand in a full year; $100,000, being the full year effect of the roster review that was effected last year; and some $243,000 by way of reduction of corporate overheads being negotiated with the Commonwealth parent body.
Needle Exchange Program
MR BERRY: Yesterday Mrs Carnell asked a question about needle exchange. It was leading up to 3 o'clock, when the Chief Minister was about to talk about our budget. I have a long answer here. Essentially, it needs to be said that the Government has always supported the needle exchange program. When it was introduced in the ACT it was innovative and it has proved to be a good program; there is no question about that. Mrs Carnell raised issues about sharing of needles and reusing of needles, and asked whether that was a health risk. I accept that people who share needles do risk spreading the virus. At the same time, we have to recognise that people reuse needles but - - -
Mrs Carnell: Not if they can get them.
MR BERRY: Even if they can get them, people do reuse. We have to talk about the ability to clean the things with sodium hyperchloride and water and those sorts of things if they are going to reuse. The education programs go on, as I am sure everybody will appreciate. Rather than go on with the detail, I seek leave to incorporate the answer in Hansard.
Leave granted.
Document incorporated at Appendix 1.
LAND (PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT) ACT LEASES
Papers
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and Training, Minister for the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning): Madam Speaker, for the information of members, I present 16 leases granted pursuant to the Land (Planning and Environment) Act 1991, in accordance with the circulated list.
The list read as follows:
Land (Planning and Environment) Act - Leases, together with executive statements -
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