Page 117 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 14 February 1990
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even utter a word about it until there was a chance of a change of government within the ACT. Then suddenly he came out and made all the promises under the sun to Tuggeranong Valley residents. Believe you me, Mr Whalan, those Tuggeranong Valley residents do see through those promises.
I think it is most important that we seriously look at this in the light that it should be looked at. The whole Assembly should give it the support that it needs and we should assess the best way of putting forward a proposal to make sure that those residents in Tuggeranong do have the swimming facilities that are very much needed.
Opposition members have spent an hour and a quarter in this chamber really just going from one side to the other saying things that obviously are not correct. To say that construction was going to be started by the middle of the year is totally untrue. Those residents thought when that announcement was made that by June this year they were going to have a pool. Obviously that was not the case. Mrs Grassby now says they had planned to make it next year. Maybe somebody else could tell me just exactly when their plans were?
Mrs Grassby: It was for 1991.
Mr Kaine: Or the year after.
MRS NOLAN: Or the year after. One thing that has been demonstrated today and has been demonstrated by the amount of media airing that Mr Whalan has given to this particular topic in the Valley View, is that most of the statements made do contain lots of inaccuracies. I think that is very unfair to the Valley residents.
MR KAINE (Chief Minister) (12.18): If Mr Whalan is going to close the debate, there are a couple of things I would like to say before he does so. I think that the debate this morning has been notable for two things and they both relate to the performance on the other side of the house. The beneficial notable thing was the excellent contribution to debate made by Mr Wood. His was the only constructive input to the debate from the Opposition. His was the only contribution that addressed methodically, systematically and purposefully the need and the priority for this facility. The rest of the Opposition's contribution was sheer words. The other thing for which the debate has been notable is the deliberate distortion of fact presented by members of the Opposition, other than Mr Wood. They have somehow set themselves up as champions of the swimming pool in Tuggeranong when, in fact, they have made no commitment to it whatsoever.
Mr Berry: What is yours?
MR KAINE: Not this year, not next year, not any year, and that, Mr Berry, is the fact. The Opposition has challenged us, "Where do you, the Government, now stand on this
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