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

That will obviously depend very much on the catchment. The Tiwi Islands is pretty much a known population. I do not have, off the top of my head, the exact numbers that will be catered for, even for the boarding school that is well into development. I can take that on notice but I say again that there is no particular or prescriptive number of people that we are catering for. Clearly, different catchments will have different demographics. There will be larger or smaller amounts according to the forward estimates of the numbers of people who will be requiring those facilities. So I do not think we will be able to place some sort of particular prescription and say that each boarding school will have so many people. The boarding schools would be required to be flexible enough to reflect the existing facilities and boarding facilities in the region, and also the projected use of the boarding school. I am sure that will differ from area to area.