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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 11 Hansard (30 November) . . Page.. 3508 ..

MR SPEAKER: Order! The minister may not be aware of the Labor Party's policies. Perhaps the Labor Party's policies have changed. One does not really know quite what goes on.

MR STEFANIAK: I can comment on that, Mr Speaker. This government is about providing relevant information, putting it out there in the public domain; obviously, ensuring that peoples' rights are protected in terms of relevant privacy, but certainly about putting into the public domain relevant data, such as the data I have just put out, which is a great credit to our system and all involved.

MR SPEAKER: Thank you. That is the way to answer it.

MR BERRY: My question, which is directed to Mr Stefaniak in his capacity as the minister responsible for sport, relates to the Belconnen swimming pool, or lack of it. I would like to award the minister zero out of 10 on his report card for delivering on promises on the swimming pool.

Mr Smyth: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: the standing orders quite clearly state that there should be no introductions to questions and that questions are to be concise.

MR SPEAKER: You can introduce. You cannot have an introduction on a supplementary.

Members interjecting-

MR SPEAKER: Dear me, it sounds like the Queensland parliament. Everybody is having a go, aren't they. Mr Berry.

MR BERRY: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I must say that if the people of Belconnen were writing out the report card they would say, "Should give up this subject."

MR SPEAKER: How about you giving up the question.

MR BERRY: I am coming to it, Mr Speaker. Does the minister think that all those little potholes from the sod turnings in which tadpoles swim during rainy weather are the swimming pools that he was supposed to-

Mr Moore: Mr Speaker, I have been invited to take a point of order. Mr Berry would be aware of standing order 117(b)(vi) which refers to ironical expressions.

MR BERRY: We are going to have to pay somebody soon to fill in the holes caused by all of those sod turnings. Would the minister care to deny that his six-year-old promise to build a Belconnen pool has come to a standstill, save for those potholes from the sod turnings, and that the people of Belconnen will miss out on swimming in the promised pool between now and the next election? Is this to remain the eternal promise-never to be delivered?

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