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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 2 Hansard (27 February) . . Page.. 552 ..

MR WOOD: My question to Mr Humphries is on the same subject. Mr Humphries, are you confident that the advice received by the GDA from Leisure Management Australia, namely, that an enclosed oval in the Gungahlin Town Centre was not viable at this time, is unbiased and in the best interests of the Gungahlin community?

MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I am certain I answered that question last week. I was asked whether I stood by the decision by the Gungahlin Development Authority that I was advised of. I said that I did - and I still do.

MR WOOD: I ask a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. Is it not true that Leisure Management Australia is almost certain to tender for the management of the ACT's ovals and sporting fields, including ovals and sporting fields in Gungahlin, and that therefore it would not be in Leisure Management Australia's interests to have an enclosed oval provided by a licensed club at the Gungahlin Town Centre site in competition with other ovals?

MR HUMPHRIES: I really do not know. I really cannot say whether that is the case or not. If you want to know whether Leisure Management Australia is likely to tender for other organisations, I suggest you ask the Minister for Sport, not me. If you are asking me whether I feel that the body which this whole Assembly voted to set up to handle tender processes like this has not done its job, all I can say is that I have already answered that question.

MRS LITTLEWOOD: Mr Speaker, my question is to the Minister for Urban Services. Is the Minister aware of any difficulties involving ACTION bus services in the Tuggeranong Valley during the past couple of days? If so, what is he doing about them?

MR KAINE: It seems that in an organisation running a network as big as that run by ACTION, with changes to various schedules, changes to the location of facilities required to operate the bus system and the like, there are problems from time to time. We have heard about a few of them in the last few days. We have heard about buses that have run late or buses that no longer serve the corner where people traditionally get on them and the like. In Tuggeranong, over the last little while, there have been some difficulties. Two or three factors have contributed. The first is that we introduced a new bus network on 3 February, and at the same time - - -

Mr Berry: The first was a Liberal government.

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