Page 3133 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 12 September 1990
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MR KAINE: Well, I presume they would know only if we tell them what the annual amount made available for this purpose is. But, of course, they do not know now, so nothing will change. I doubt whether very many people out there in the community even know how much money is in the Community Development Fund, let alone how much of it is actually released in any year. I very much doubt that even you could tell me how much money you released from the CDF last year. So, in that respect, I suppose I could say that that will not change either, but I would be prepared to say that the Government will indicate each year how much money will be made available to those people formerly funded through the CDF, so that everybody does know what the - - -
Mr Berry: Well, that is an improvement.
MR KAINE: It is an improvement on what you did too, Mr Berry.
Civic Pool
MRS GRASSBY: My question is addressed to Mr Duby. I refer to the Minister's statement that the cost of works for Civic pool, including a bubble, will be approximately $2.1m. Given that the papers in my possession - which are less than 12 months old and which I am happy to table in the Assembly - show that the estimated cost was $1.1m, I ask that the Minister provide the Assembly with details of this doubling of cost, a blow-out of 100 per cent.
MR DUBY: I thank Mrs Grassby for the question. The issue is very simple, actually. The figures that Mrs Grassby was provided with last year in relation to refurbishment of Civic pool did not include the complete refurbishment of the pool and did not include a number of things in relation to fees, for example. The program that Mrs Grassby had looked at - and I have seen the papers that she says she is only too happy to table - does not include upgrading of the dressing facilities for the ladies and gents, the provision of a covered walkway into the bubble atmosphere of the pool, and, as I said, provision for fees.
In addition, the amount that was quoted for the particular air structure, commonly referred to as a bubble, was, I believe, in the order of $400,000, Mrs Grassby - and that figure was a guesstimate at the time. The figures that have been supplied by the Public Works division are accurate and more up-to-date figures, and they are far more appropriate at the level of $750,000. So, all in all, the figures that Mrs Grassby is citing do not relate to the complete refurbishment and provision of an air structure at Civic pool at all, but only to a band-aid job.
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