Page 1353 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 25 March 2009
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MR STANHOPE: I just think it is interesting in the context of the public conversation and debate around this car park that at no stage has Mr Coe or Mrs Dunne, in their media commentary on the Nicholls car park, actually mentioned the salient fact that the car park was built in 2000 under the stewardship and on the watch of the then minister, Brendan Smyth, and the then minister for planning.
Mr Seselja: It is always someone else’s fault. Seven years and you have got nothing right.
MR STANHOPE: Well, we need to accept that. No wonder Mr Seselja is a little bit upset and seeking to drown out this commentary and refusing to accept the responsibility of the Liberal Party for this car park. I think it is the most salient fact that we are here debating what Mrs Dunne has just described as a dangerous car park—and it was a car park that was approved by her then boss, the minister for planning, Gary Humphries, a car park that was constructed at a time that Mr Brendan Smyth was the relevant minister. Those are pertinent and salient facts.
Let me go to some of the issues. There was a consultation. Territory and Municipal Services did do a letterbox drop of 80 houses, those immediately within the street and within the area. I understand that from that initial letterbox drop of 80—I think, from memory, and I am going on memory—there were six responses to Territory and Municipal Services to the proposal—
Mr Seselja: Not an overly extensive letterbox drop, I think.
MR STANHOPE: Well, 80 houses, those most close geographically and within the street. Of the 80 households that were directly contacted—
Mr Hanson: They are so close they probably would not need a car park.
MR STANHOPE: Of the 80 households that were directly contacted, six responded, and the responses were essentially evenly divided. As a result of further consultation and engagement, TAMS quite reasonably and appropriately committed to additional consultation. It has letterboxed the whole of Nicholls, as I understand it, and TAMS has now committed to a full community consultation on all the possible options on 29 April. That is what TAMS has done. In the context of the amendment that Mr Coe has allegedly moved to his own motion—
Mrs Dunne: Point of order, Mr Speaker: Mr Stanhope’s comment that he was speaking in relation to Mr Coe’s amendment which was allegedly moved is a reflection on the ruling of the chair and is hence disorderly and should be withdrawn.
MR STANHOPE: That is just nonsense. In the context of the motion which—
MR SPEAKER: Order! Hang on, Mr Stanhope.
MR STANHOPE: we have been told Mr Coe has moved—
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