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21 September 1988 3132 ?,Cviattu r ouncit LEG(;IS LAT I VE CO UNCI L Wednesday, 21 September 1988 THE PRESIDENT (Hon Clive Griffiths) took the Chair at 2.30 pmn, and read prayers. GOVERNMENT AG ENCIES STANDING COMMITTEE Country High School Hostels Authority HON MARK NEVILL (South East) [2.33 pm]: I am directed to present the twentieth report of the Standing Committee on Government Agencies, which is a report on the operations of the Country High School Hostels Authority. I think I can safely say that all members of the committee found this to be one of the most interesting and valuable inquiries undertaken by the committee. Some members may not be aware that the Country High School Hostels Authority provides boarding accommodation for over 900 country students through hostels in Albany, Esperance, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Katanning, Merredin, Moora. Narrogin and Northam. Hostels provide the only means for many country students to continue high school education other than by correspondence. Each hostel has a direct impact on its town's economy through the consumption of goods and services. However, the hostels have a greater impact through the collateral benefits which they provide. In many cases it is hostel students who make the local high school viable, thus directly affecting the quality of education available to their community. In addition, the increase in population provided by hostels makes other community facilities viable. Properly managed hostels also provide services and facilities to the wider community, and provide their students with worthwhile social and academic support not otherwise available to country students. Commuittee members visited each of the authority's nine hostels during the course of the inquiry and found a number of impressive hostels and dedicated staff. The committee also found a number of significant problems which need to be rectified if the country high school hostel system is to prosper. The major areas of concern related to finance, management and communication, but the committee's 33 recommendations cover a wide field. I will not go through all the recommendations contained in the report; however, I would like to highlight some of the major recommendations. The most important recommendation is that coordinAtion of country high school hostels should remain the function of the independent Country High School Hostels Authority and should not be transferred to the Ministry of Education as was proposed by a number of witnesses, In addition the committee recommended that - The Country High School Hostels Authority should be renamed the "High School Residential Colleges Authority" and all existing hostels should be renamed "Residential Colleges"; the Country High School Hostels Authority should enter into negotiations with the Rotary Club of Victoria Park and Kent Street Senior High School with a view to forming a joint venture to establish a hostel adjacent to the Kent Street Senior High School for country students attending specialist courses at Kent Street and other senior high schools; the Government should examine the financial requirements of Swanleigh Anglican Hostel in Middle Swan and make a grant of funds to the hostel sufficient to ensure its long term viability as an independent metropolitan hostel; the State Government Boarding Away from Home Allowance and the per student grant to hostels should be abolished and the State Governiment should assume the responsibility for paying the salaries of all hostel supervisory staff; the Country High School Hostels Authority should use local trades people and professionals for capital works projects whenever possible; and the Ministry of Education should pay the Country High School Hostels Authority a commiercial rate of return for all the authority properties used by the Ministry. [Wednesday, 21 September 1988] 333133 The report represents the unanimous findings of the comnmittee, and I commend it to the House and the Government. On behalf of the commuittee I would like to record the full cooperation of the hostels authority and its staff and to thank those people who assisted in the inquiry, particularly the board members, staff and students of the hostels who met with the committee and greeted us with hospitality and forthright comments, and my fellow members on the committee. I would particularly like to pay tribute to the many people who give up their valuable time to serve on the local boards of management of our country hostels. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the very competent and highly professional work of our principal adviser, Mr Ganry Newcombe, who has served the committee for four years and who plans to leave soon: I wish him every success. Mr President, I move - That the report do lie upon the Table and be printed. Question put and passed. [See paper No 440.] HON N.F. MOORE (Lower North) [2.38 pm] - by leave: I second the motion, and thank the House for allowing me to say a few words in support of Hon Mark Nevill in presenting this report to the House. It demonstrates for all to see that the Standing Committee on Government Agencies is a very worthwhile operation. It has been operating for a number of years and [ think that I am the only member who has been on that committee since its inauguration. It has been a worthwhile comnmittee which has demonstrated quite clearly to me the importance of having a Standing Committee of this House set up in the way in which this committee is. It has access to a full time executive officer, in this case Carry Newcombe, who has proved to be an outstanding officer of undoubted capacity. It is regrettable, as Hon Mark Nevill has said, that Mr Newconmbe is going to greener pastures, but I trust that when we are given an opportunity to appoint a successor we will be able to find somebody of equal capacity and competence, although it will be difficult. The report itself has taken quite a long time to compile, and that in itself is a sensible approach, because it was important for the committee to be able to conduct an in-depth inquiry into the activities of just one of the 600 odd statutory authorities which come within its jurisdiction. It has taken 12 months to look at one authority; one wonders how long it would take for a comnmittee such as ours to look at all the authorities which are commonly called quangos. Hon P.C. Pendal: There are only about 800, [ think; fortunately you are still very young. Hon N.F. MOORE: It demonstrates the problems the Parliament has in keeping track of the authorities which it sets up and which come under its jurisdiction. This inquiry produced a very good report. The commuittee unanimously agreed to all the recommendations, The recommendations we have made in respect of the Country High Schools Hostels Authority will lead to that authority becoming a better and more efficient organisation, and will ultimately lead to the hostels in our country towns providing a better service for the students and parents who use them. The report mentions that the authority has been starved of capital funds in recent years. While the present Budget allocates $120 000 for the Esperance Hostel, which is long overdue, I hope the Government will acknowledge the need for some capital injection into other country hostels. The PRESIDENT: Order! I must remind the honourable member, and indeed the House, that in regard to the tabling of reports, the procedure is very clear. A report can be moved without notice, but Standing Order No 366 clearly indicates that the reports can be tabled without any discussion or comnment. In recent times there has been a tendency for the chairman of the commnittee who is tabling the report 10 make some short explanatory commnent about the mechanics of the preparation of that report. That has been condoned in the knowledge that the contents of the report are not discussed. Hon Mark Nevill today made such an explanatory comment, and although it was a long one I do not believe he actually spoke about the contents of the report, although he many have drifted on to it on a couple of occasions. I am now concerned that in an endeavour to circumvent Standing Order No 366 members are seeking leave to make a statement. I do not believe that leave extends to allowing discussions of the content of the report. [ believe that leave does nothing more than permit the member to make a statement about the preparation of the report. In this place at least, if 3134 (COUNCIL] members want to discuss the content of the report, there is a procedure to be adopted, and that is that somebody moves for notice to be taken of the paper, in the same way as we are dealing at present with the Budget papers. I intervened on Hon Norman Moore because I believe his statement is proceeding beyond that for which leave was granted, and he is enideavouring to discuss the contents of the report. I suggest he ought not to. Hon N.F, MOORE: Far be it from me to transgress the Standing Orders. I want to make the point, Sir, that I did suggest the course of action you talked about - that is that it be made an Order of the Day for the next sitting of the House - but it was suggested to me by persons who have more authority or say about what goes on in this place than I that that was not what was wanted, and I was asked to do it in this way. I accepted that advice. However, I accept your ruling, and I will simply commend the report to the House and hope members will read it.
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