Page 838 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 20 March 2019
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The ACT will keep working hard to ensure that our response to the royal commission puts children first and that our services are oriented around supporting survivors.
ACT Fire & Rescue—equipment
MR PARTON: My question is to the Minister for Police and Emergency Services. Since July 2017 the ACT’s only Bronto has been unavailable for 2,354 hours, or roughly one day per week. A replacement was provided for only 925 hours. This means that the ACT was at serious fire risk without a Bronto for over 1,400 hours, or 60 per cent of that time. Minister, why have you allowed the ACT to be at fire risk with no available Bronto for over 1,400 hours since July 2017?
MR GENTLEMAN: I refer Mr Parton to my detailed statement yesterday with regard to that appliance.
MR PARTON: Minister, in what month will the new aerial pumper appliance be delivered and operational in the ACT?
MR GENTLEMAN: The process for a new aerial appliance is detailed. As soon as the appliance is commissioned, road ready and delivered to the ACT, I will make that announcement.
MRS JONES: Minister, when will a full-size replacement for the current Bronto be delivered? Do you even know?
MR GENTLEMAN: It is not our intention to replace the Bronto as such. The Bronto is the appliance which sits on top of the cab chassis. The appliance that we are replacing or procuring is a new aerial appliance. It is superior to the current one. I have given the details of the procurement for that process. It should be delivered as soon as it is constructed.
Schools—safe and supportive schools review
MS LEE: My question is to the Minister for Education and Early Childhood Development. Minister, yesterday you announced a committee set up under the Education Act to review safe and supportive schools practice across public schools. Minister, why are parents and teachers excluded from contributing to this committee?
MS BERRY: They are not.
MS LEE: Minister, why can individual schools not have their concerns investigated by this committee?
MS BERRY: This advisory committee is set up to investigate the processes, policies and systems in place to ensure that when bullying or violence occurs in our schools we have the appropriate settings in place to make sure that the victims of violence, the perpetrators of violence and others involved are supported. This is not an inquiry for individual circumstances to be made a spectacle of or to have fingers pointed at
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