Page 106 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 14 February 1990
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Mrs Grassby: That is not a point of order. The Speaker can control the house. He is very capable of doing that.
Mr Whalan: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; can I assume from that ruling on that particular point of order that you will protect me in future from the vultures on that side when I am speaking?
MR SPEAKER: From the members opposite, certainly, Mr Whalan. Please proceed, Mr Duby.
Mr Kaine: You are dead meat, Paul.
MR DUBY: Mr Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the pool was never on the Labor list for capital works and never on the forward design program. There has been no money allocated. It is simply not here.
Mr Berry: But you said it was here. You said it. Mrs Nolan said it was on yours - a prime priority.
MR DUBY: There it is - find it. It is not in your forward design program in any area.
Mr Whalan: Acknowledge the Chair when you cross the floor.
MR DUBY: Mr Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the need for additional swimming pool facilities in Tuggeranong has been recognised for quite some time by all members of this Assembly. No-one is disputing that. In order to provide these facilities at minimum cost to the Government, Mr Whalan provided an option for the lease of a site of land in the town centre to a private development, with the requirement that a 50-metre pool plus other aquatic leisure facilities be constructed. Mr Whalan was the person who gave the option to a private company.
Mr Whalan: That is not right. That is false.
MR DUBY: Mr Whalan is the one who asked for - - -
Mr Whalan: That is mendacious.
MR DUBY: I am not so sure.
Mr Whalan: I am sure, and that is mendacious.
MR DUBY: The developer that Mr Whalan gave an option to has not been able to satisfy the requirements of that option and it lapses at the end of this month. It is my understanding that a further option will not be granted. Mr Whalan appointed a group of four community advisers. They represented the Capital Territory amateur swimming association, the ACT Department of Education, the Royal Lifesaving Society and the Tuggeranong Valley Rugby Union and Amateur Sports Club. The group was to develop recommendations with respect to the location, the scope and managerial arrangements for a proposed Tuggeranong Olympic
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