Page 2390 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 6 August 1991
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Mr Duby: That was in this year's capital works program. It was going to be built this year.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Duby! Mr Duby desist, please. I warn the member. If you carry on with that behaviour, Mr Duby, you will find yourself walking. I call Dr Kinloch.
Dr Kinloch: Mr Speaker, this is not a supplementary question; I would merely repeat my question to which I have not yet had an answer.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you for that observation.
MR BERRY: As members who are so full of knowledge on this issue will recall, if they have any grasp of it, the hospice was programmed at a cost of about $2.1m, from my recollection, and I think there was some talk of recurrent costs of around $600,000.
Mr Duby: Two Ainslie tips.
MR BERRY: It was $600,000. It seems that the recurrent costs were grossly underestimated, and the Government is now considering the provision of the hospice in the overall budget context.
Mr Jensen: It has been removed from the capital works program.
MR BERRY: And it certainly has been removed from the capital works program.
DR KINLOCH: I wish to ask a supplementary question. I had not asked a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. Is the hospice now on the capital works program?
MR BERRY: If you had been listening you would know that I told you that. I told you that it was not on the capital works program; it is going to be considered in the overall budget context.
Asbestos Dump
MR STEFANIAK: Mr Speaker, my question is directed to Mr Connolly, the Minister for Urban Services. Along with the publication of the whereabouts of the newly opened asbestos dump at West Belconnen, it has been reported that the Department of Urban Services - - -
Mr Berry: Promises, like Bernard's $8m worth of new promises.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Berry, please!
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