Page 2177 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 28 August 2007
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ended about halfway and would have been a highway to nowhere—which is what your $32 million would have delivered. Your $32 million could not have delivered one-third of that stretch plus the bridge. It would have ended near an empty horse paddock. And good on you.
Mr Speaker, I am just waiting—I must admit that I am not going to hold my breath or I will go blue—for these folks to say how much they are going to commit in the election promises for the 2008 election to put those other two lanes in. It is all very well and good for them to do what they are very good at, which is to stand up and say, “We don’t think that’s good enough”—and nothing would happen.
Mr Smyth: Point of order, Mr Speaker: under standing order 118 (b), the minister cannot debate the subject. He has to answer the question or sit down.
MR SPEAKER: Continue, Mr Hargreaves.
MR HARGREAVES: I really do not think that there is any debate here. These guys are just standing up here and saying, “This is wrong.” They are constantly doing that—throughout the life of this Assembly. With respect to the Gungahlin Drive extension—
MR SPEAKER: Order! Come back to the subject matter of the question.
MR HARGREAVES: With respect to the Gungahlin Drive extension, have they said how they would increase it from $47 million to the real-day price? No.
MR SPEAKER: No, and that was not the subject of the question. Come back to the subject matter.
MR HARGREAVES: The subject matter of the question was: is it on time and is it on budget?
MR SPEAKER: No, it was not. It was a supplementary question.
Mr Barr: It was about the truck.
MR HARGREAVES: Okay, Mr Speaker. With respect to the broken down truck, this is what would happen. The NRMA would be called, and they would dispatch a really big truck—a much bigger truck. It would go up one lane of that road and it would promptly put the broken-down truck on the back of that rooly, rooly big one. Then it would drive off and get that other truck fixed. In the meantime, we will have the assessments—
Members interjecting—
MR HARGREAVES: and in doing that, the RTA and the police would ensure that there would be minimum traffic disruption. I doubt if we will see it happening.
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