Page 4626 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 27 November 2019
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MS STEPHEN-SMITH: Those opposite appear to believe that the entrance is opposite Garran Primary School. I can well and truly assure them that it is in fact not opposite Garran Primary School. We are considering detailed design for the SPIRE project. We will work through those issues with the local community.
Mrs Jones: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. Again, I ask the question and for the minister to be directly relevant to it: is there any possibility that the entrance will be moved?
MADAM SPEAKER: Mrs Jones, there is no point of order. The minister has been quite clear about the concept details around the entrance and the location.
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: The current proposed entrance to the emergency department in the SPIRE project is as far away from Garran Primary School as it could be on the SPIRE location. So it is very unlikely that the entrance to the emergency department will be moved. But we are in the process of detailed design development, so I do not want to give any concrete yes or no answer, because that is what the detailed design development process will consider.
ACT Ambulance Service—SPIRE project
MR WALL: My question is to the Minister for Health. Minister, in a response to a recent FOI request sent to the ACT Ambulance Service, it was stated that they had no papers in relation to the SPIRE project. This indicates they have not been consulted about the SPIRE project. Minister, why wasn’t the ACT Ambulance Service consulted about the SPIRE project?
MR GENTLEMAN: Madam Speaker, I am the minister with responsibility for the ACT Ambulance Service. I can advise that they have been in consultation with the major task force team on building SPIRE, indeed, right down to walking the actual plot, to ensure that they have the best access possible.
MR WALL: If the minister for emergency services wishes to take the question, I will direct the supplementary to him. How is it possible that the ACT Ambulance Service has been consulted if there is no documentary evidence of this?
MR GENTLEMAN: I am not sure that that is the case, Madam Speaker. Often in these matters, of course, Mr Wall will raise a point where he considers nothing has occurred where it actually has. I will take advice on this—
Mr Wall interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Wall, you have asked the question.
MR GENTLEMAN: and come back to the chamber with the documents.
MRS DUNNE: Will the minister ensure that the FOI request that I made, in relation to which I have been told that there are no documents, is reviewed thoroughly; and
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