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projects? There was certainly unhappiness expressed about the concept that government was holding a community information session rather than a consultation session. I applaud the government for being up-front enough to say that it was a community information session rather than trying to fool people into believing that it was a consultation session.

I would also like to note, with great support, that an intentional community housing project is being funded as part of this. A number of parents of adult children with disability have lobbied for very long to get this, and I am very pleased about it.

As my colleague Ms Hunter said, we are broadly supportive of the program; we would just like you to take a bit longer for it to be done a bit better.

Mr Hargreaves: I seek leave to respond to a couple of important points that Ms Le Couteur raised.

Leave not granted.

Mr Hargreaves: I will suspend standing orders if you want. We have got two responses and two comments on it. There have been comments made; I think I am entitled to respond.

Standing and temporary orders—suspension

That so much of the standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent Mr Hargreaves from making a statement.

I do this in order to respond to some of the points that Ms Le Couteur raised.

MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (3.55): The Liberal opposition will be opposing this motion. We now have the situation where leave to make a ministerial statement has morphed out into a three-quarters of an hour debate on public housing. If members want to do that, they should put it on the notice paper and do it in the usual way.

Question resolved in the affirmative, with the concurrence of an absolute majority.

MR HARGREAVES (Brindabella—Minister for Disability and Housing, Minister for Ageing, Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Corrections): I thank the members of the Greens for that support; I will not take very long at all. I did not list everything that was said, but I think I got the gist of it. There were essentially two issues. One concerned the north-facing—

Mr Hanson: Madam Assistant Speaker, on a point of order: could you ask the member to address his comments through you, not directly to the crossbench.

MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ms Burch): Thank you, Mr Hanson.

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