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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 7 Hansard (27 June) . . Page.. 2006 ..

MS TUCKER: My question is to Mr Stefaniak and it is about ovals. I listened to the answer you just gave to Mr Corbell's question, but I would still be interested in hearing a reassurance from you about the Lyons oval. The community around there are concerned because surveyors were engaging in some kind of surveying on Lyons oval last week. Perhaps you could take this question on notice if you do not already know why the surveyors were working at Lyons oval.

MR STEFANIAK: I thank the member for the question. Early this morning, Ms Tucker, I read that too, and I was rather intrigued. Of course, I do not have any surveyors in my department. I asked my colleague the Minister for Urban Services and Mr Humphries, who might have some knowledge, whether they knew anything about it. My colleague the Urban Services Minister has made some inquiries. I will let him tell you all about the surveyors on Lyons oval, because it relates to his department.

MR SMYTH: Mr Speaker, the surveyors were there at the request of the Urban Services Department. They are doing some works through the capital works program. Often the ovals are used as part of the water retention system to cope with large floods and in proofing the territory against, say, the 100-year flood, which is the standard we often work to. Sometimes ovals are used as water retention basins. A report was done by the NCDC many years ago, and since then we have done a Woden Valley stormwater review. It identified that there are some inefficiencies in the water system in Lyons. Part of the survey work is to work out where the water retention basins can be installed on the Lyons oval.

Ms Carnell: I ask that all further questions be placed on the notice paper.

MR MOORE: I would like to add a little bit more information to the answer I gave to the question Mr Hargreaves asked, when he said High Performance Healthcare is a US company. I would like to provide the answer that I have in front of me now. High Performance Healthcare is an Australian-based company located in Sydney which specialises in the provision of consumer access to health care services by health interaction centres. It has been providing health information and advice services in Australia for more than 10 years. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Teletech International Pty Ltd, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Teletech Holdings, a Nasdaq-listed US public company. Teletech's Asia-Pacific regional headquarters is also located in Sydney. Teletech is a world leader in integrated electronic customer relationship management.

MR QUINLAN: Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation. The Treasurer erroneously said that Labor has continually claimed that the government was too high taxing. Let me correct this. I have objected to some taxes and particularly to inequitable taxes such as the emergency services levy, which turned out to be an embarrassment to the government. That is the sort of objection we have brought up in relation to taxation.

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