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A more recent survey, I think by the then Department of Urban Services, also came up with the same indication that people are concerned about dogs. Further to that, you would have seen the recent media publicity about certain breeds of dogs. I am aware that the former Government was proposing some changes to the legislation. As with all the legislation that you people had proposed, this Government is now reviewing that, and my review of the amendments that you had proposed to make to the dog legislation is also part of that. I will be doing that very soon, and would expect to be proceeding with something in this house.
Public Works Projects
MR DUBY: Mr Speaker, my question is also to Mr Connolly, in his capacity as Minister for Urban Services. I refer to the answer given today by Mr Berry which relates to the Tuggeranong pool announcement that, in effect, there are going to be major changes to that proposal. I was wondering: What other public works projects, endorsed and due to proceed in this coming year under the Alliance Government, will now not go ahead, given that you are examining them in terms of the budget context?
MR CONNOLLY: I thank the Leader of the Opposition for his question. Mr Speaker, upon assuming office as Minister for Urban Services, and while administrative arrangements were being sorted out to work out who was finally responsible for the pool, on taking possession of the desk of the Minister for Urban Services, I looked through the bottom drawers for the $12m to pay for the pool and, of course, it was not there. There is no actual money for that pool.
Like all of the proposals in the forward public works program, it will be examined in the budgetary context. Like my ministerial colleagues, I am going through the process of preparing the budget, and all of the public works projects in the forward projections, prepared under Mr Duby's administration, are being examined in the budgetary context. I cannot and will not give a case by case run-through of all of those proposed projects.
Ms Follett: Mr Speaker, I ask that further questions be placed on the notice paper.
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