Page 2112 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 5 June 2019
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MR PARTON: Minister, what have you done to ensure the safety of contractors in such a hostile environment?
MS BERRY: I have not, as I said in response to an earlier question, been advised around the numbers of individuals who are contracted to maintain the public housing in this particular circumstance. Housing ACT works very closely with all of these organisations, including project facilities management, to ensure that if there are safety and security issues on any public housing site, they are addressed.
Public housing—safety
MRS JONES: My question is to the Minister for Housing and Suburban Development.
Ms Berry: Not more on the same thing.
MRS JONES: It is pretty important.
Ms Berry: It is an important topic. I just thought I’d responded to everything.
MRS JONES: It is your turn today, minister. Minister, I refer once again to the disturbing level of violence at the complex referred to in previous questions. What assistance is given, in particular, to victims of shooting or stabbing incidents or other violent activities that occur in this housing complex?
MS BERRY: I cannot comment on what Mrs Jones said might have occurred at this place. I do not have advice that any of that behaviour has occurred. It is a criminal investigation. I think that, in the first instance, we should let the police get on with their job.
MRS JONES: When incidents like this occur, what assistance is given to residents in a complex where there are a number of Housing ACT properties on the same plot?
MS BERRY: If they continue to be Housing ACT tenants, Housing ACT would, through their client support services, make sure that Housing ACT residents get the supports that they need. Through the police investigations, police will have victim support available for people who may need that additional support. That would happen across the board, not just for public housing tenants, as I would understand it.
MR PARTON: Minister, have you been to Jerilderie Court this year, and is it true that there was a major police raid there this morning?
MS BERRY: Have I been there this morning? No, I have not.
Mr Parton: The question was about this year.
Mrs Jones interjecting—
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