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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 14 Hansard (11 December) . . Page.. 4944 ..

MRS CARNELL (continuing):

As far as I am aware, people at the Fisher house will not move in until the support plans are finalised, the house roster is available, essential equipment has been purchased, the house is properly furnished and all of those sorts of things. The department will provide financial assistance to intending residents for a trial period. All the discussions are continuing. I cannot, for the life of me, work out how Ms Reilly can believe that the COOOL house project is somehow a negative. Certainly, the discussions with regard - - -

Ms Reilly: I did not say that.

MRS CARNELL: Yes, you have. You have whinged about it for the last two days. As I understand it, negotiations are continuing. Yes, they have taken longer than we would have liked - there is no doubt about that - but I understand that copies of support plans and house rosters are now with the people involved.

MS REILLY: Mr Speaker, it is disappointing, when I raised an issue yesterday, that the Minister obviously has not been - - -

MR SPEAKER: I am not interested in your disappointment or otherwise. You may ask a supplementary question without preamble.

MS REILLY: Since the establishment of the Macquarie COOOL houses has been such a disaster for the people concerned, what strategies, not just meetings, are in place to ensure that the entry of the people into the Fisher houses is not too traumatic?

Mrs Carnell: I just gave them to you.

MS REILLY: You have outlined some issues around what you have done and you have had a meeting. The people who moved into the Macquarie houses also had - - -

MR SPEAKER: Order! Sit down. Resume your seat. You have asked your supplementary question. I will not have preambles or extra talk. You know the rules.

MS REILLY: Mrs Carnell interjected, Mr Speaker. I do apologise for responding to her.

Mr Kaine: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker. Everybody over there has been interjecting all afternoon and now she takes exception to someone interjecting, for heaven's sake.

MR SPEAKER: A question fully answered cannot be renewed.

MS REILLY: May I ask a supplementary?

MR SPEAKER: I have heard the question.

Mrs Carnell: Repeat it for me.

MS REILLY: All right. As the meetings are continuing with the people in the Fisher house, have they decided not to move in until it is all resolved, and when will that be?

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