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MINISTER FOR HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

QUESTION NO. 1115

Housing Trust Properties - Fires

MR CORNWELL: Asked the Minister for Housing and Community Services -

In relation to your decision to sell smoke detectors at cost to ACT Housing

Trust tenants -

(1) How many tenants have purchased detectors since the August 1993 Assembly debate.

(2) How many fires have occurred in Trust properties since that debate.

(3) What is the total estimated damage from (2).

(4) How many people have required medical assistance for problems or injuries suffered in fires in (2).

MR CONNOLLY: The answer to the Members question is as follows -

(1) Numbers are not available. Tenants may install the units themselves or have the ACT Fire Brigade install the units. The Fire Brigade do not record requests in sufficient detail to determine whether dwellings are private or are owned by the ACT Housing Trust.

(2) Nine

(3) $122,300.

(4) Eight individuals are reported as attending hospital as a consequence of four of the incidents

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