Page 2144 - Week 10 - Thursday, 26 October 1989
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Aged Persons Units
MR COLLAERY: I address my question to the Minister for Housing and Urban Services. Minister, I refer to a recent Gazette notice which shows that a contract was let for the design of eight aged persons units in Ainslie to a Tasmanian firm. Minister, will you inform the Assembly of the selection criteria used to select design agents and will you advise whether there are any additional costs incurred in using non-local agents?
MRS GRASSBY: I will have to get back to Mr Collaery on that question because I do not have the answer to it.
Mowing Equipment
MR STEFANIAK: My question is also to the Minister for Housing and Urban Services. I asked the Minister some time ago about the purchasing of five Hustler mowers.
A member: Oh, no!
MR STEFANIAK: I hope this is the last question I have to ask about these damned mowers, but have those mowers been delivered yet?
MRS GRASSBY: I have the answer - and I know what a dolly is now. It is the axle with the extra wheels that you put under a very heavy truck so you can put more weight on it. It is not something you get when you are a little girl.
Mr Kaine: What has that got to do with Hustler mowers?
MRS GRASSBY: He asked me what a dolly was.
Mr Kaine: That was a week ago. He is asking you about Hustlers now. What is a Hustler?
MRS GRASSBY: Well, I am about to answer that, please, Mr Kaine. You know, you have to be patient in this world. I mean, men have very little patience. It is always seen in women, but never in men. Mr Stefaniak, I will have to find out whether they have been delivered, but I do have an answer to your other question which I will deliver to you after question time.
Preschool Education
MR MOORE: I wish to thank the Chief Minister for being so patient after a couple of long speeches by her Ministers - so far!
A member: She has to be, hasn't she?
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