Page 5433 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 16 November 2010
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Mr Smyth: May I have the supplementary? Are you ruling the supplementary out of order?
MR SPEAKER: No, I am not. I asked him to sit down. He had asked his question.
Mr Smyth: On a point of order on the supplementary. The supplementary was about variations to the Casey concept plan, not about education in Gungahlin. I would ask that you consider whether or not it is in order.
Mr Hargreaves: On the point of order, Mr Speaker, the supplementary to the supplementary wandered off into sporting facilities for young people in Gungahlin.
Members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order! Thank you, members. I sought to confirm my recollection. Mr Seselja’s question, I think, did branch out into the broader aspect of sporting facilities and on that basis Mr Hargreaves’s question is in order.
MR BARR: Thank you, Mr Speaker. As members would be aware, the integration of education and sport and recreational facilities in Gungahlin is important and indeed valued by that community. It is, I think, recognition of a long-term goal for both the ACT and other Australian jurisdictions to be able to unlock the gates of school sporting infrastructure to make that more available for the community. You see, for example, in the design of the Gungahlin college that those facilities are designed in a way to be accessible to the community outside of school hours. There are similar arrangements around Harrison and, of course, with the new facilities at Nicholls. They are just some examples of the sort of work that the government is undertaking in this area in order to ensure that we get good utilisation of this important community infrastructure.
Housing—shared equity scheme
MR HARGREAVES: My question is to the Minister for Housing, and I have a reasonable abiding interest in this, not unlike Ms Porter’s abiding interest in education.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Hargreaves, your question.
MR HARGREAVES: I am indeed, I hope, allowed a preamble.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Hargreaves, your question.
MR HARGREAVES: My question is to the Minister for Housing. Could the minister please inform the Assembly of the current progress with the shared equity scheme?
MS BURCH: I do thank Mr Hargreaves for his ongoing interest in innovative schemes for home ownership. The shared equity program is an innovative program that is affording home ownership to people for whom home ownership would
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