Page 1092 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 29 May 2007
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addition to an additional 500 temporary parking spaces that are being provided now; I think that work is about to commence. There will be an additional 500 car parking spaces adjacent to Canberra Hospital, construction to commence almost immediately. We will commence construction, hopefully, once the design is completed by the end of this year, of a multistorey car park of 500.
Ms Gallagher: That is 1,400—500 visitors.
MR STANHOPE: We will be adding 1,400. There will be 1,400 car parking spaces added to the Canberra Hospital campus as a result of initiatives the government is taking—in addition to which we are providing a new and better helicopter landing pad as part of the multistorey car park development.
Mr Smyth: In the middle of Garran?
Ms Gallagher: Still in Garran, up high.
MR STANHOPE: Up high, on top, there will be a new helicopter landing pad incorporated into the design of the multistorey car park.
These are significant investments. Once again, they are investments by a government that acknowledges and recognises the major priorities of this community. At its heart, they are health, education, community safety and a range of other priorities in which this government has invested—not like the previous government which was always gunna do something: a government that, had it remained in power, was gunna invest in a glassworks but never quite got around to it; a government that was gunna build a new prison until it got its hands on some polling that said that people are not all that interested in providing facilities for prisoners and said, “Let’s just abandon that little promise or that little undertaking, that little commitment.”
Opposition members interjecting—
It is interesting, isn’t it? Here we have them jumping up and down expressing serious angst at churlish behaviour, not acknowledging that they once supported a glassworks. When it comes to accepting the level of their support for the prison, of course, we get a completely different response. Are you prepared to stand up and own up to the fact that in government, for year after year, you endorsed the prison?
MR SPEAKER: Come back to the subject matter of the question, please, Chief Minister.
MR STANHOPE: I acknowledge that it is not relevant to the question, but it is very interesting, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Is there a supplementary question, Mrs Burke?
MRS BURKE: Thank you, Mr Speaker. And thank you, Chief Minister—such as it was. When was the decision made to cease pay parking in the hospital and when was this decision finalised by cabinet?
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