Page 1057 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 20 April 1994
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Yarralumla Montessori School
MR HUMPHRIES: My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. I refer to proposals to co-locate the Yarralumla Montessori School at the Yarralumla Primary School. The Minister will be aware that this proposal has been on foot since the time of the Alliance Government, but it has not to date received any capital works funding to ensure that it goes ahead. Is the Minister aware that the existing facilities at MacGillivray Street are inadequate and will require large expenditure to meet occupational health and safety standards? Is he also aware that space designed for the Montessori School at the Yarralumla Preschool stands vacant and has been vacant for three years? Can the Minister tell the Assembly how high this co-location is on the Government's list of priorities, and can the Minister offer the parents of the Montessori School any confidence that the Government will treat the co-location as a matter of priority and ensure that funds for the necessary work are available in the forthcoming budget?
MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, I am fairly well aware of all the matters that Mr Humphries raised. To the best of my knowledge, the Montessori School is a good site. It is an adequate site for the number of students there at the moment. I believe that they want to enlarge their enrolment; hence they want to shift. I am not aware of significant occupational health and safety problems there. To the best of my knowledge, it is a safe site for the children. Mr Humphries asks how high the priority is. It has my support; but, as Mr Humphries would know, a lot of other projects would have my support. When it comes to budget time we have to draw a line somewhere. That is what has been happening in recent years. There is no shortage of competing projects. Mr Humphries will have to wait and see the outcome of this year's budget to know whether the priority is as high as is necessary to gain the project some funds.
Ms Follett: I ask that further questions be placed on the notice paper, Madam Speaker.
PERSONAL EXPLANATION
MRS CARNELL (Leader of the Opposition): I seek leave to make a personal explanation under standing order 46.
Leave granted.
MRS CARNELL: In question time Mr Connolly indicated that I had somehow done something particularly nasty with the valuation that I was quoting from - - -
Mr Connolly: No; I just read the final paragraph.
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