Page 407 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 27 June 1989
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MR STEFANIAK: Perhaps I could say by way of a supplementary question or even an explanation - - -
MR SPEAKER: No, we will not have any explanation.
MR STEFANIAK: I think the Deputy Chief Minister is talking about a different oval. My question related to Reid oval, or Rugby League Park, Braddon, where there is a large area, part of which could be sold for medium density housing. I refer to Rugby League Park, Braddon - Reid oval, not Ainslie oval, which is Rugby Park and which is a different code.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Would you like to take that on notice, Deputy Chief Minister?
MR WHALAN: No. I think that Mr Stefaniak is confused. I do not know of any Reid oval and I do not know of any proposal to redevelop Reid oval.
Civic Pool
DR KINLOCH: My question is directed to the Minister for Housing and Urban Development. As a very brief preliminary, Mr Speaker, the Assembly congratulates the Minister on her lively, attractive, and appropriately daffodilic, spring-like costume. I need to say that because we are back with the Civic pool, and the Minister is surely a harbinger of a new swimming season. Can the Minister provide details of the budget allocation for the Civic pool in the next financial year? Is the Minister aware that the Civic pool could be turned into a profit-making concern by the erection of a dome to provide all year round swimming facilities which we all need, as has occurred at the North Sydney pool, and, if so, will the Minister initiate appropriate action?
MRS GRASSBY: I would like to take that question on notice. Because there is quite a lot involved in this, I would like to get back to you on it.
ACT Ambulance Service
MR BERRY: I would like to respond to a question raised by Mr Duby on 1 June concerning ambulance services. The question obviously arose out of concern for services to the community but also, I suspect, for services that might be called on by members in this place, given the amount of pressure which is imposed from time to time. I suspect that Mr Duby was concerned about the pressure which is sometimes placed on Ministers during this part of proceedings. The question requested my advice on the number of ACT Ambulance Service vehicles on call in the ACT. I was asked how this compared with other cities in
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