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These facilities will be funded by the sale of Jindalee Nursing Home at Narrabundah. The facility at Belconnen would incorporate a special self-contained residence for younger disabled persons.

Mr Berry: “We will construct”.

MR DE DOMENICO: Mr Berry, you did not read that next sentence. You stood up in your spot and you said that this was all done secretively by the Liberal Party with Mrs Carnell's fingers crossed behind her back. You were being disingenuous, Mr Berry, as you always have been, to this place. That is another point.

Let us talk about things being done without consultation. We have part of the rent-a-crowd in here - the ones with the pretty little T-shirts on, like the one that you have there.

Mr Berry: Yes, these.

MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Berry, put it down.

MR DE DOMENICO: Wave it as long as you like. One of those people, who happens to be wearing this pretty little T-shirt, at the time that Mr Connolly flogged and tried to flatten Jindalee was working in the office of the former Chief Minister, Ms Follett. The person who has been out there bleating to the television cameras that he did not know anything about it worked in Ms Follett's office. How disingenuous is that, Mr Berry? This mob comes in here, still smirking, licking the wounds of 18 February that the people of the ACT inflicted on them because they were incompetent, because they were disingenuous. Before you come in here and start bleating, get the facts right. Have a good look at yourselves in the mirror in the morning and then come in here and talk about people with their fingers crossed.

This mob have stood up and have said, “Listen, the only ones who can do anything with nursing homes are the public sector”. That is a slap in the face to people like the Uniting Church, the Anglican Church, the Baptist Church and the Presbyterian Church, and every other not-for-profit organisation. You know as well as I do that in 1989 Allambee Nursing Home was sold, and we know now that the conditions of the residents of that nursing home are much improved. We also know that the nursing home situation is funded by the Commonwealth Government. We also know that your mate there, Mr Connolly, the next Deputy Leader of the Opposition - may you long be in that position, Mr Connolly - flogged Lower Jindalee last year. He flogged it. Your Chief Minister then knew about it because someone on her staff is now part of the union. If anyone says that they did not know about it they are being disingenuous as well. Wake up to yourselves. You are like shivers looking for a spine to crawl up, for heaven's sake. Look at yourselves long and hard in the mirror. You flogged it. You had to flog it. So do not come in here and use double standards in this debate.

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