Page 115 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 14 February 1990
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Mr Kaine: You said it was high on your priorities.
MRS GRASSBY: You said it was high on your priorities. Where is it? Is it one, two, three, four, five, or is it 10 or 20 or 100? That is what we want to know. Give us your priorities. Tell us when it is going to be built and how important you think it is. We think it is very important because we think the people in Tuggeranong are extremely important people. And let me tell Mr Jensen, we will be back here in 1992, do not worry, maybe even before, but I am not sure that Mr Jensen will be here because, for all his talk about looking after people in Tuggeranong, he cannot even tell them what your Government's priorities are concerning when this pool will be built.
MR STEFANIAK (12.12): Mr Speaker, it is interesting to note the comments of the various speakers here and to see a consistent thread coming through. The ACT Labor Party has taken only a very recent interest in the question of a Tuggeranong pool.
Mr Whalan: You do not even know where Tuggeranong is, Bill.
MR STEFANIAK: I know where Tuggeranong is very well.
Mr Whalan: At least you can pronounce it better than your mate Jensen.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR STEFANIAK: For three years the Federal Labor Government has had a chance to do something out in the Tuggeranong Valley and it has not done so. I think Mr Jensen has ably demonstrated the remissness of that Government, and the opportunity the Deputy Leader of the Opposition had in his capacity on the staff of five relevant ministers to influence that. Indeed, Mrs Kelly has taken an even later interest than the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the issue of a swimming pool. How convenient that we have a Federal election coming up which must be held before May 12.
It is interesting to note, too, as I think my colleague Mr Duby said, that there is nothing in that document he has handed to Mr Whalan - the previous Government's budget allocations - to indicate anything in relation to money being allocated for the pool. We have had talk today of that money being allocated maybe in 1990-91 had the last Government remained. And you have also heard, Mr Speaker, from this Government that funding for the project has been included as a high priority in the major new works proposal to be considered in the context of the next budget.
So I think it is quite wrong for the Opposition to say that we are any tardier than they are. The motion, as put by Mr Whalan, is a blatant attempt at pork-barrelling, nothing
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