Page 2482 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 17 June 2009
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Mr Hanson: No, we have told you about the bush healing farm. We support it.
MS GALLAGHER: No, no view on the car park, no view on the bush healing farm—well, not where it currently sits anyway.
Mr Hanson: No, no we support where it sits.
MS GALLAGHER: Absolutely no view on any of these matters and this is what you wanted the Minister for Planning to return for when you had access to the Deputy Chief Minister, the Minister for Health, the minister responsible for the capital asset development plan and the minister responsible for writing the letter seeking the Minister for Planning’s use of his call-in power.
You had that opportunity. We, as a government, complied with the committee’s request to return and answer further questions and to be as helpful as we could. The matter that the Minister for Planning was considering during that time, quite appropriately, remained out of the committee. The scrutiny of that call in is there for all to see. Additional reasons behind the Minister for Planning’s decisions will be tabled in this place. We wait with baited breath for the Liberals to have a view on something. Do they support the call in of the hospital car park? Do they support the rebuild at Canberra Hospital? Do they support the fact that car park remains the great enabler and do they—
Mr Hanson: The great enabler?
MS GALLAGHER: It is. It is the great enabler for the rest of the project.
Mr Hanson: Ha! The great enabler?
MS GALLAGHER: Well, you might laugh, Mr Hanson, but unless this car park is built, nothing else will get built on that site, okay?
Mr Hanson: I understand it is getting built.
MS GALLAGHER: Okay. If the car park does not go ahead, and this is a pretty easy concept to get your mind around, but I can see you are struggling with it, nothing gets built until that car park is finished. Do you agree that the car park enables the rest of the development? Do you agree that the risk of not having this project go ahead is in the interests of the ACT economy? Do you believe 80 construction jobs starting in September and going through the next 12 months is good for the ACT economy? These are the challenges that the opposition has to stand up and have a view on. Do you have a view on this—jobs, development, hospital rebuild? It is pretty easy, Mr Hanson. It is pretty easy. You have got plenty of opportunity in this debate to stand up as the opposition spokesperson on health and say what you actually think.
MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (3.49): Mr Speaker, you can see that the government has spent some of the time while the members here have been working in estimates to huddle together and come up with a new narrative. The new narrative is that every
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