COMMUNITY RESOURCE
CENTRES
1012. Hon MARTIN ALDRIDGE to the Minister for Regional Development:
I refer to community resource centre
funding.
(1) Will the
minister commit to not reducing CRC funding in the forward estimates?
(2) Does the
minister intend to reduce the number of CRCs or their opening hours?
(3) If yes to
(2), has there been any consultation with the affected CRCs?
(4) If no to (2),
when will they be consulted?
Hon
ALANNAH MacTIERNAN replied:
I thank the member for the question.
I understand the mischief that he is
responding to. The member, of course, will be very pleased to know that we will be holding a CRC forum in Northam tomorrow
and all the CRCs have been invited to attend, to be inspired and to plan for the future. In one of the notes that
went around, a comment was made that there needed to be a period of
consolidation. Some people—a particular entity—have taken this
to mean something other than the natural meaning of the words; that is,
we were extending the contracts of the CRCs because we wanted to give them a period
of stability. The following are the specific answers to the questions.
(1) Yes.
(2) No.
(3)–(4) Not
applicable.