Page 852 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 2 May 2007
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has done probably would not have happened—at least in the proposed time frame—if I had not tabled the motion. Because of that work, things have moved quite quickly and I am very pleased that the government is coming along with us. I appreciated Ms Gallagher’s frank explanation about why the old review, which my original motion wrongly described as being unfinished, has not been tabled.
I am sure that my motion and the outcome of the measures contained in it will be hailed by the community sector. This is a step forward for them and it will be seen as a real means by which some of the difficulties that some of the poorest people in our community face will to some extent be alleviated. I am hoping that the review that is conducted will include their expert advice, because they are the people at the coalface. A debt recovery review is being done at the moment. I would like the government to see if there is some way in which, rather than operating in parallel, this review can be linked to the review that is proposed in the amendment.
I suppose that Mrs Burke was in a dilemma because on the one hand she supports my motion but on the other hand she had to chuck a spear in the side. What she proposed is absolutely quite irrelevant. I have decided that Mrs Burke does not get it. It does not matter what I say in the house or anywhere else. It appears that there is a light in the eye and a bit of understanding but the next minute we are hearing the same thing—and it is the same thing—that Mrs Burke has been telling us over and over again. It is hardly worth responding to her comments on what I have been saying about housing—
Mrs Burke: You keep bringing it up, Dr Foskey.
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order!
DR FOSKEY: Mrs Burke, my opinion—and you do not have to agree with it—is that you do not get it when it comes to social housing and poverty, and the transition between poverty and wealth. I do not believe you get it and that is it—full stop. As we know, there is an element of concession in respect of public housing but the bigger picture is that we need a sustainable social housing sector, and if you run public housing only on a concession basis you put at risk that social and financial sustainability.
I saw Mr Smyth hand the amendment to Mrs Burke. I wondered where it came from, and that is good.
Mrs Burke: I asked in my speech.
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order!
DR FOSKEY: That is how a party works and—
Mrs Burke: I asked in my speech.
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Dr Foskey, would you take a seat for a moment. Mrs Burke, I have called you to order more than three times. You have continually talked over the top of other members in the chamber. Please cease.
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