Page 4485 - Week 14 - Thursday, 9 December 1993
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MR DE DOMENICO: I will, Mr Moore. Thank you. Mr Lamont's interesting homework and his telling us all about the road safety statistics was very interesting. It was very edifying; but what it has to do with the matter at hand I am blowed if I know. Despite the sighs that I hear opposite, they still will not convince me that what Mr Lamont said had anything to do with the matter at hand. We know that the Transport Industry Training Commission has been given this - - -
Mr Lamont: Committee.
MR DE DOMENICO: We know that the committee has been given this plot of land for a peppercorn rent of 10c a year. Mr Stevenson and Mr Cornwell said quite adequately, "Listen, if there was a potential to get more money out of this site, even by using it for the same things as it is being used for today, why has it gone to the Transport Industry Training Council?". Whilst Mr Lamont might think that it is an appropriate body, there may be other people in the community who disagree with him. That is not unusual, let me say. The Road Safety Council, Madam Speaker, is one body that might disagree with Mr Lamont's comments. They have done a wonderful job for many years in the ACT and elsewhere in this country. For Mr Lamont to suggest that the only people who can prevent road trauma and road accidents is this particular body is bunkum. For example, consider what happens when one learns to drive a racing car and the wonderful work done by people like Renault and other racing car organisations. It is in fact linked to road safety as well.
Mr Stevenson: To a great degree.
MR DE DOMENICO: Thank you, Mr Stevenson. It is linked to a great degree. One imagines that if you learnt to drive a racing car well you would be able to handle the local Mini Minor. Mr Lamont, we know, is an expert on health and everything else that seems to come up in the Assembly. Now, all of a sudden, he is an expert on road safety as well. I note that it was an excellent speech that he delivered and, quite obviously, it was researched for him by somebody else. Well, he is not an expert. What Mr Lamont failed to talk about was the matter at hand, and he does that a lot. What we are talking about is whether this organisation should have virtually carte blanche use of this complex.
Mr Wood: There is a board.
MR DE DOMENICO: Thank you, Mr Wood. Mr Wood tells me that there is a board. We know that the management board is due to meet once every three months, but in fact we know that sometimes it does not meet for six months.
Mr Wood: It met on 17 November or something recently.
MR DE DOMENICO: Good on it.
Mr Wood: Are you like Mr Cornwell? Do not worry about the New South Wales residents. Is that your view too?
MR DE DOMENICO: I have to tell you, Mr Wood, that, when it comes to whether I would satisfy ACT residents or New South Wales residents, ACT residents would win hands down every time.
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