Page 116 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 14 February 1990
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more than that. The motion, as put by my colleague the Deputy Chief Minister, Mr Collaery, is a far more appropriate motion. It indicates that this Assembly expresses its total support for the development of a swimming complex in Tuggeranong. This Government is committed to that. A study is being done to recommend the most cost-effective way to meet the recreational and competition swimming needs of the Tuggeranong residents identified by the group doing the study. That is most appropriate. There are a number of options that are being looked at. Mr Whalan, of course, is only putting one of those options in his motion.
This Government, as the Chief Minister so ably said in his press release of 19 January 1990, refuses to delude the electorate - unlike the Opposition - with ill-founded promises and blatant pork-barrelling exercises such as they have been engaging in in the Valley View and other media outlets over the last few months.
MRS NOLAN (12.15): I will be brief as I think most of the subject has been well canvassed today. One of my major concerns is for those Valley residents. We hear from the Labor Party on the other side of this chamber, and we saw in the Valley View, 29 November:
"Construction should begin no later than the middle of next year", Mr Whalan said.
Mr Whalan has obviously said that it was going to be constructed by the middle of next year. With what - green stamps? I am not quite sure where the money was going to come from. Mrs Grassby has now said it was going to be the following year.
The situation is that this Government is currently evaluating options and certainly will not be making promises that it cannot keep. There are several options available to it. The Government will go down the path of looking at those. We are well aware of the learn to swim situation in Tuggeranong and also the lack of recreational facilities. It is unfortunate that there are schools which are now having to go to the pool as early as 7.00 am in order to have any access to swimming facilities. We are making sure that we know that all these things are happening and that we evaluate all the proposals that can be put before us.
I also understand that there is a contract with a private developer that has not as yet run out. He was given an extension of time to 28 February. I am not quite sure how this Government could be making a decision based on the fact that an extension of time has been given to a private developer. That contract was obviously let several years ago under the previous Federal Labor Government. Mrs Kelly would obviously have had an input in those days. She was not terribly much concerned about it until just recently, when an election was on the horizon. Mr Whalan did not
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