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Mr Connolly - the answer to the Members question is as follows:. .
(1) Asbestos is present in the former Royal Canberra Hospital. The buildings are: Main boiler room and flues; Main Block plant rooms 14 and 15; and Labour Ward; Bennett House; electrical switchboards.
(2) A Public Works and Services Technical Report vindicates. there is no danger to public health.
(3). The records regarding the cost of sealing/previous removal of asbestos are head by the Commonwealth: .
. (a) the sealing/previous removal occurred prior to self government;
(b) the sealing/previous removal was cleared as satisfactory by a building
(4) The total cost of removing the remaining asbestos is $1,073,000 as at September
1990. .
(5) The buildings not being used are Isolation Ward, H. Block and N Block: (a) the total area not being used is 29,450 sq m; (b) the Isolation Ward, H Block and North Block are reserved by the Department of Health for non acute health services; vacant area in the Tower Block is unsuitable for alternative uses without refurbishment.
(6) All vacant areas are unused because they would need refurbishing to be effectively occupied.
(7) No areas are vacant because of asbestos or other contamination.
(8) Bennett House .and the Tower Block.
(9) A proposal to refurbish the tower block for office use was costed at $13.5 million.
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