Page 2996 - Week 08 - Thursday, 15 August 2019
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MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Ramsay, resume your seat.
Mr Coe: I ask you to consider whether that supplementary question is in order. The issue that I raised was not hoarding; it was about a commercial activity taking place on a property in Kaleen.
MADAM SPEAKER: A substantive part of the minister’s response referred to complexity around matters such as hoarding. Therefore I believe it is in order.
MR RAMSAY: It is important to be able to deal with matters with the complexity they deserve and the seriousness they deserve, not the simplicity of the Canberra Liberals.
When it is a matter that has been determined to fit within the unclean leasehold provisions, it can be that the hoarding case management group works with that. Hoarding is ultimately, as has been commented on in the media over the past 24 or 48 hours, a matter that arises from mental health conditions as well. In particular circumstances, it is important to be able to deal with the whole of that. The government agencies that are working with the hoarding case management group are Housing ACT, Access Canberra, Transport Canberra and City Services, waste regulation, ACT Fire & Rescue, the Ambulance Service, the Public Advocate, the Public Trustee and Guardian, Canberra Health Services, the ACT Health Directorate and the Community Services Directorate. They work together with the community sector as well.
It is important to note that, as has been demonstrated over and over again, unless you deal with this matter with a wraparound, holistic approach, you will make the matter worse. Then we will simply—
Mr Coe: It’s a massive public health issue. The neighbours. The mosquitoes. The rats. The snakes.
MR RAMSAY: You can yell “rats” and “snakes” as much as you want, Mr Coe, but the issue here is that if you do not deal with the matter holistically, the matter will become worse, not better. (Time expired.)
Planning—Molonglo Valley
MS LE COUTEUR: My question is to the Minister for Planning and Land Management and relates to the lack of a supermarket in Molonglo. Minister, with the current closure of the Denman Prospect supermarket and the recent DA rejection of KOKO Molonglo, all three suitable sites released so far have failed to provide the Molonglo community with a supermarket. What is the ACT government doing to ensure that the local community has a reasonable level of facilities?
MR GENTLEMAN: I thank Ms Le Couteur for her question. It is of course important to have facilities where possible in new areas and they normally go through in the planning process to approve applications for the construction of those buildings. The lease of those is really up to the private sector, the owner of the buildings.
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