Page 242 - Week 01 - Thursday, 14 February 2019
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That the Members so nominated be appointed as members of the Select Committee on Fuel Pricing.
I commend members for their enthusiasm for this inquiry and look forward to seeing the results of their hard work.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Sitting suspended from 12.00 to 2.00 pm.
Questions without notice
Schools—bullying
MR COE: I have a question for the Minister for Education and Early Childhood Development. Minister, have you visited the Tuggeranong primary school mentioned in the Canberra Times on 11 February since the events came to light?
MS BERRY: No, I have not. Given the circumstances that have been described in the Canberra Times, the director-general and directorate officials have visited the school or are at the school supporting the school principal and school staff as well as the families that have been involved in the issues. There has been a meeting this week with the community at that school—last night. I had a member of my office attend that meeting. The people who attended that meeting were aware that there was a member of my office at that meeting, given that we were sitting here in the Assembly. I expect to visit the school sometime soon, but I have left it up to the director-general, who is the manager of schools in the ACT, to get things in place before I get out to the school and talk with the school community.
MR COE: Minister, did you visit or did you direct the head of your agency to visit the school this week and did you also direct her to visit the school when you first became aware of these issues last year?
MS BERRY: I did not direct the director-general to visit the school. She visited the school because she is the manager of public schools in the ACT. Directorate officials have been at the school since last year and the beginning of this year.
MS LEE: Minister, will you agree to a joint visit with me, and perhaps even Mr Rattenbury, to the school—as you say, when you are going to visit—given the Assembly’s unified concern about these issues?
MS BERRY: I will take that question on notice.
Public housing—Stuart flats
MS LE COUTEUR: My question is to the minister for housing and relates to the planned sale of the Stuart flats, advertised for 20 March 2019. Minister, how much social and affordable housing will the government require the developer to provide on this site?
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