Inquiry into the provision and regulation of supported accommodation in Queensland
Submission No: so
Submitted by: (submitted by Queenslanders with Disability Network) Publication:
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This is a transcript of an audio submission received by the Community Support and Services Commitee. It is not a strictly verbaƟm record, but rather an accurate record generated by the commitee secretariat. The commitee has determined not to publish parts of the transcript from the submission including: idenƟfying informaƟon of the submiter and/or their residence; material not relevant to the inquiry; and words that may be considered offensive.
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My name is . I’ve lived here for nearly a year in April easter.
And what was the address?
OK and maybe we could just start with a litle bit about you, who you are.
Yeah, I’m 64 years old, lived here for nearly 12 months. I like my football and cricket stuff like that, good feed. I’m happy for my submission to be publicly read out or whatever. I had three aneurysms in my brain. They said I should have died and I spent 12 months in the PA hospital recovering and then just different places with my sister unƟl I got here.
Yeah, right. Did you live in other level 3’s before here? No.
Never, never, never, never.
And how did you find it when you first moved in here.
Oh I loved when I first got. It. Yeah. yeah, yeah, it’s alright yeah.
Is there anything in parƟcular that you would like to see changed?
Food could be a bit beter that’s about it. Well, it took me less than a year to get it and now I’ve been good because I have a season pass to go see the Broncos next year. Yeah, yeah, it’s been good.
And do you have providers come in here to do services with you? Do you have NCIS providers?
There's one block called , have you ever met , he's alright, he's a nice bloke. He gave me
$10.00 for Christmas and ummm yeah that’s about it.And does he come in and-help you with anything? No. No, not at the moment, no the staff to all my bed and stuff, me washing.
Yeah. Does , like, take you out to do? Take you to appointments or anything and I guess one of the things is you know, would you, you said before? We were talking about how much money you have leŌover for acƟviƟes aŌer you pay rent. It’s about $200, mostly goes on food, acƟviƟes. Just go what they’ve got here, bowling and stuff like that, which I went to today and bus trips. Well, my sister moved up from Dublin, South Australia to look aŌer me because no one else would and she comes to visit now and then and that’s about it.
And so when you were living in the hospital, who actually helped you to find to live? my sister your sister helped you? Yeah. Yeah. And is there anything else I guess about living here that you would like to see change or ideas to make it make it beter. Is there something the government could do? They could paint the rooms white or put a big mirror on the wall something like that. They won’t do that? put in air condiƟoning.
This is a transcript of an audio submission received by the Community Support and Services Commitee. It is not a strictly verbaƟm record, but rather an accurate record generated by the commitee secretariat. The commitee has determined not to publish parts of the transcript from the submission including: idenƟfying informaƟon of the submiter and/or their residence; material not relevant to the inquiry; and words that may be considered offensive.
Air condiƟoning, yeah.
This won’t happen either.