Page 1157 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 2 April 2019
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MR RAMSAY: Indeed; I always hope to be able to satisfy Ms Le Couteur in responding to her questions. I am aware that there have been some conversations between insurers and owners, or owner organisations of individual sites. That is primarily a matter for those insurers and those building owners. Here in the ACT, as has been mentioned previously in this place by Minister Gentleman, and by me as well, the use of the cladding is not unsafe. What we are focusing on is the unsafe use of the cladding. We will continue to work on that. I affirm the ongoing work of the Building Ministers Forum in that area as well.
MR WALL: Minister, has Access Canberra identified any residential buildings containing ACPs or aluminium composite panels that are at risk of fire?
MR RAMSAY: Noting that it is not necessarily the role of Access Canberra to be working in the area of identification in relation to fire safety overseen by the ESA, Access Canberra, as I say, has not identified any requirement for enforcement action within its purview, which is my ministerial portfolio responsibility, for the unsafe use of those cladding materials.
Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders—Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm
MR MILLIGAN: My question is to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing. In 2007-08, the Assembly passed the second 2007-08 appropriation bill, which provided for a “culturally appropriate residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility in the ACT, servicing the adult Indigenous population”. This facility was to be called the Indigenous bush healing farm, which we now all know as the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm. Why is there no culturally appropriate residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility in the ACT servicing the adult Indigenous population over 10 years later, despite the expenditure of $12 million?
MS FITZHARRIS: In response to Mr Milligan’s question, obviously I cannot expressly comment on something that occurred over a decade ago, but I do note that there has been a significant discussion about the role of the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm today. The role of the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm is very clear in connecting people to country to be able to ensure that they can break the cycle of addiction. I also note that there have been multiple discussions. I am aware that Mr Milligan was briefed by the organisation undertaking a review of the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm and I believe that in that briefing he was advised that there would be a meeting in the very near future, which I referred to in my previous answer.
In relation to a residential treatment centre, members will know that when we released the drug strategy action plan late last year we certainly had that as a key action item in that drug strategy action plan.
And, Madam Speaker, if I could just correct an answer related to this that I gave previously, I indicated that there were 11 clients in the current program. If I could correct that, there are currently eight clients who were deemed suitable and about 11 clients who were originally screened for the April program.
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