Page 850 - Week 03 - Thursday, 14 April 1994
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As the member has said, there have been a number of suggestions for interim use for the area no longer used as the Kingston bus depot. The former Minister, Mr Connolly, has agreed in principle for a Sunday arts and crafts market to be established in that centre. Additional work is required to be undertaken before that can be implemented. Some of those things that need to be done, Mr Berry, include ensuring that we comply with the appropriate planning requirements for the area and that the people proposing to use it for this purpose have the appropriate coverage for public liability and so forth. Once those matters have been finalised I will inform the Assembly of the commencement date of this important initiative.
MR BERRY: Madam Speaker, I have a supplementary question. Deputy Chief Minister, I wonder whether you have briefed the Moore-Stevenson group yet? If not, I suggest that you do it quickly.
Mr De Domenico: I take a point of order, Madam Speaker.
MADAM SPEAKER: The point is taken, Mr De Domenico.
MR LAMONT: I will take on board this good advice, Madam Speaker.
Non-Government Schools Funding
MR CORNWELL: My question is addressed to Mr Wood, the Minister for Education. Minister, the ACT Government recurrent funding, at 50 per cent of the Commonwealth level, for non-government schools is being changed from 1995. However, I understand that relativities are being retained. Can you explain whether this maintenance of relativities is, in fact, so? Secondly, will it result in less funding for the non-government sector, or sections of it?
MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, I think the record of the Labor Government has shown that we pay very careful attention to the non-government school sector, and that they have been very well dealt with by the Government. Obviously, as for the government school system, we do not have the unlimited amount of money that some people think should be there to provide all the funds that they would wish to have. I am not able to answer your question because this is at present a matter of discussion between me and the Education Department, and between the Education Department and the non-government school sector, as I prepare to take a submission to Cabinet for budget consideration. The matter is active and alive, no decisions have been reached.
MR CORNWELL: I ask a supplementary question. When you say that the department is consulting with the non-government sector, Minister, does that include representatives from the Parents and Friends Association of the ACT?
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