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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2004 Week 10 Hansard (Thursday, 26 August 2004) . . Page.. 4319 ..

MR SPEAKER: Come to the point of the question, please.

MR STANHOPE: Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. That analysis will show that the Liberal Party over four years did absolutely nothing. It delivered 21 beds in its four-year term.

Mr Smyth: On a point of order, Mr Speaker—

MR SPEAKER: I heard you, Mr Smyth. Come to the point of the question, please.

MR STANHOPE: It will show that the Liberal Party delivered 21 beds in a four-year term and gave absolutely no direct grants of land at all.

Mr Smyth: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: under standing order 118 (b), the Chief Minister cannot ignore your direction. He is debating the subject and should be directed and should comply with the direction.

MR STANHOPE: I was doing that. If you stop interfering and allow me to answer the question, I will.

MR SPEAKER: He has got five minutes to answer the question.

Mr Quinlan: The context of what’s in the pipeline.

MR STANHOPE: I am providing context.

Mr Smyth: The question didn’t ask about the former government; the question asked about his announcements.

MR SPEAKER: I think the Chief Minister is entitled to contextualise things. That has always been the case.

MR STANHOPE: And that is all I have been doing.

Mr Smyth: Under 118 (b), though, he is not allowed to argue the subject, which is what he is doing.

MR SPEAKER: Yes, and he has to come to the subject matter of the question.

MR STANHOPE: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Having undertaken that retrospective analysis, the details of which I will be releasing shortly, the government has put in place a whole new strategy to determine the needs now, the needs in the longer term and how we meet those needs. I am particularly proud of the advances we have made through the strategy, to meet the needs of an ageing community—something that we take particularly seriously.

It is true that over the last couple of months we have direct-granted or approved the direct grant of land that will actually achieve the prospects of an additional, I think, 350 or thereabouts beds and about 600 independent living units. I do not have the

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