Page 1181 - Week 04 - Thursday, 21 April 1994
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MR CONNOLLY: As one gets more advice, one wants to make sure that one is spending public money wisely. There is the major threshold question of whether it is a sensible investment of $3m to $4m a year to run a full-scale cardio-thoracic unit for a community of this size. When that report is received, I will read it. No doubt, once I have read it, I will give members here the opportunity to read it. It will be a substantial matter for the Government to decide and, at the end of the day, for this Assembly, I suppose, if it wants to pass motions and direct me - - -
Mrs Carnell: So people can still go to Sydney.
MR CONNOLLY: Mrs Carnell, they may well, because patients from Hobart go elsewhere and patients from Darwin go elsewhere. There is a substantial - - -
Mrs Carnell: They have it in Hobart.
MR CONNOLLY: For different forms of treatment. I apologise. I may have misled on that because I am not fully briefed on this issue, but it is common for patients to move to the best centre of excellence. It is easy for Mrs Carnell cheaply to promise, promise, promise. Here is a $3m to $4m promise. Can we afford it, and is it a viable and sensible - - -
Mrs Carnell: You have to have one with a clinical school.
MR CONNOLLY: Mrs Carnell says so, but that does not necessarily make it so. Is it a sensible and viable investment of ACT dollars? I will read what the experts say before forming a judgment.
Ms Follett: I ask that further questions be placed on the notice paper.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ON NOTICE
MR CORNWELL: Madam Speaker, I raise a matter under standing order 118A. I refer the Minister for Education to my question on notice No. 1178, which was due to be answered on 24 March 1994, and, further, to my questions on notice Nos 1212 and 1214, which were due to be answered on 2 April 1994. I ask whether the Minister can provide answers today or, if not, indicate to the Assembly when the answers will be provided.
MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, those answers will be provided as rapidly as possible. There is always some research involved in these. I am not sure of the particular topic of each of them and whether they have actually passed through my hands, but I will get back to you and let you know.
Mr Cornwell: One of them was to do with the school census figures from 14 February, and the other two related to the Sutton Road training track.
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