Page 4235 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 23 October 2019
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MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Hanson. Ms Cody, could you repeat the point of order?
MS CODY: Miss C Burch’s amendment is all about light rail and my motion is about roads infrastructure and how it supports the ACT.
Ms Lawder: On the point of order, Mr Assistant Speaker, paragraph 3(b) of Ms Cody’s motion specifically refers to light rail and public transport. I do not believe that it is irrelevant for Miss C Burch to propose an amendment, as she is entitled to do, that talks about public transport.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Ms Cody, there is no point of order.
MS CODY: Thank you. Back to my speech.
Mr Hanson: Do you know what your motion says?
MS CODY: I am referring to Miss C Burch’s interesting amendment that further notes that:
Ms Cody and other Labor Members continue to sanctimoniously refuse to acknowledge the ongoing chaos with regard to Canberra’s bus network;
It is an interesting concept.
I would like to draw attention back to my motion, the whole idea of which is to talk about Mr Steel’s wonderful roads infrastructure plan included in the infrastructure plan the Chief Minister announced just last week. It will provide our city with a much-needed, ongoing plan for our future to help support the growing number of residents moving to our fabulous and wonderful city. This is our grouse city that we live in every single day. It is a wonderful opportunity to talk about this infrastructure plan, and I am pleased I brought my motion forward today.
MR STEEL (Murrumbidgee—Minister for City Services, Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Minister for Recycling and Waste Reduction, Minister for Roads and Active Travel and Minister for Transport) (3.29): I would like to thank Ms Cody for bringing this motion forward today. As the Minister for Roads and Active Travel and the Minister for Transport, I am proud to support this motion, which calls on the government to deliver road infrastructure in line with our infrastructure plan and in Ms Cody’s electorate of Murrumbidgee, and mine, as set out in the announcement that we have made over the past week.
Our ACT Labor government has a very proud history of investing in road infrastructure. That is because we know that roads are an integral part of moving all Canberrans around, connecting them with the services, with the schools, with everything that they need to get to. Roads are necessary for the operation of our public transport network. They provide corridors through which buses run. That is why investing in road infrastructure is not just about moving people around in private
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