Page 324 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 7 March 2007
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credit to the CFMEU here and to CSI, because they are great blokes—where they put a food van—
Mr Mulcahy: How is George, anyway?
MR HARGREAVES: I do not know.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR HARGREAVES: I do not know. I have got no idea where George is—no more idea about where George is than you know where your mate Brian Burke is, mate. I do not know. You and your AHA mates: were you with the AHA when they had a contract with Brian Burke? Well, go back and check your diary. I suggest you do, because we are going to.
Mr Mulcahy: Not me.
MR HARGREAVES: Yes, because if we are in it so are you. All old longstanding members of the Labor Party are going to—
Mrs Dunne: Relevance, Mr Speaker.
MR HARGREAVES: Well, it is all about Mr Mulcahy’s choice to work here.
I was speaking about those food vans. The reason why the CFMEU and CSI got together and did that was that it was an occupational health and safety approach and it was about giving the work force on the collection of building sites around that area somewhere to go for lunch or for morning tea that was not anywhere near the temptation of pubs and clubs. It was also about giving them nutritional information if they wanted it and—
Mr Mulcahy: Who are you kidding?
MR HARGREAVES: You have not had anything to eat at that food van? I will take you.
Mr Mulcahy: No, no. I would not be game.
MR HARGREAVES: I will take you—Monday lunch time. Do you want to be my date, Mr Mulcahy?
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Hargreaves! Direct your comments through the chair.
MR HARGREAVES: Sorry about that, Mr Speaker. Mr Speaker, I have offered to take Mr Mulcahy to lunch. I will take him for lunch or as lunch; it does not really matter to me.
Mr Speaker, did you know that those workers at those buildings sites, a collective, have got to be careful when they go to that van, because if they are missing from the site at the wrong time they can be regarded as off-site, as leaving the site without
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