Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Community Services) Share this | Hansard source

I understand that there is obviously some urgency in this. I will offer a more comprehensive briefing than I am able to give you here. In terms of the timing, there is a sense of immediacy. As part of the intervention we are ensuring that we will go and assess the schools. Some schools have quite a level of amenity; some have none. So we will make an assessment of the level of amenity. We will assess what level of amenity is needed and we will make up the difference. We will provide the salaries required against the assessment and the amount of equipment that is required to provide those meals to a standard. It is probably best for me to provide a more comprehensive briefing on exactly where we are up to in what communities, and we are more than happy to provide that.