00:02All smiles with new money on the table.
00:0594.3 million dollars going into police, fire and ambulance services.
00:11That will fund 26 new paramedics and six operational staff in the next year as well as 29 firefighters and
00:18six support workers.
00:19There's also 3.8 million dollars to advance plans for the new police headquarters and city police station.
00:26To work with the proponents who came through that expression of interest process and work to negotiate a contract which
00:34will then eventuate in the signing of a lease.
00:37The plan is for some of the new paramedics and firefighters to work out at the Molonglo Fire and Ambulance
00:42Station.
00:43However its opening date is a point of contention.
00:46A couple of months, it'll be a few months.
00:48Unfortunately the Minister is dreaming.
00:50The Molonglo site's kitchens, bedrooms and other facilities may be ready but the Transport Workers Union says the ACT's ambulance
00:57service is still short 50 paramedics.
01:00If the ACT Government proceed with opening Molonglo this year, they need to choose which stations they're going to close.
01:06Is it Fish Week? Is it Woden?
01:08The Government is also facing questions about the timeline for its election promise to deliver a Molonglo police station.
01:15The work for the town centre planning is well underway so that work is continuing and as part of that
01:21work there is a site that will be allocated to ACT police for a police station.
01:27What we have at this stage is very little to show for it.
01:31We need the ACT Government to front up to the community and give us clear timelines on when they intend
01:37to deliver their election commitment promise.
01:40What's not in doubt is that it will be needed in an area that's growing rapidly.
01:45With respect to any other experts in the pandemic when you areimme***s you can beeching for hisNotes Colleen.
01:52You'll be able to report it in an area that millions of esc enmities is both önces and won't send
01:52out and ask him over when it is for success that's what you did want.
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