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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 4 Hansard (7 May) . . Page.. 1067 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):

In conclusion, I commend to the Assembly the Community Safety Committee's report on the crime and safety concerns of older people. Apart from the advice it offers by way of recommendations, it contains a welcome overview of the literature in this area and provides a cameo view of the situation in the ACT by providing data specific to the ACT. It pleases me to be able to report the Government's positive response to the recommendations. I thank the committee for its work on this reference.

Debate (on motion by Mr Wood) adjourned.

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (3.55): Mr Speaker, for the information of members, I present the Government's response to Report No. 24 of the Standing Committee on Planning and Environment, which was entitled "Review of Auditor-General's Report No. 5, 1996 - Management of Former Sheep Dip Sites" and presented to the Assembly on 11 December 1996. I move:

That the Assembly takes note of the paper.

Mr Speaker, I will not speak at length about this report, other than to say that there were three recommendations. One of those was that a public meeting be held in Watson to deal with the issue of sites at Watson which had been the subject of some concern by the residents there. Following the release of the Government's evaluation of the risk to residents and the bio-availability of poison in the soil, the view of residents at that place was that there should be no public meeting, that the issue should not be ventilated in that way, and the Government was happy to accept that recommendation and not proceed. The comments in the Government's response are quite straightforward.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning): Mr Speaker, for the information of members, I present the schedule of lease variations and change of use charges for the period 1 January 1997 to 31 March 1997 and the schedule of leases granted for the same period pursuant to the Land (Planning and Environment) Act 1991. I ask for leave to make a short statement.

Leave granted.

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