Page 2521 - Week 08 - Thursday, 30 August 2007
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MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order, Mr Hargreaves! Direct your remarks—
MR HARGREAVES: I do not appreciate it, Dr Foskey—at all.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order, Mr Hargreaves! Direct your remarks through the chair.
MR HARGREAVES: Furthermore, Mr Deputy Speaker—
DR FOSKEY: You need to control this man.
THE DEPUTY CHAIR: Calm down.
MR HARGREAVES: Furthermore, where people are in their homes and they either have a disability or a carer that is a very good reason to leave them there. Indeed, we have a program in our refurbishment where we will either refurbish a home or build a brand new one if someone suffers a disability—far from moving them out, Dr Foskey. You should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself at the mere suggestion.
DR FOSKEY: I wouldn’t have said it if it wasn’t true—and possibly I didn’t say it.
MR HARGREAVES: It is not true. You know it is not true. You just misrepresent the truth because you have not got either the wit to figure it out or the courtesy to ring us up and have a briefing on it. You have not once rung my office to seek a briefing on it.
DR FOSKEY: It is not true, Mr Hargreaves.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Mr Hargreaves, resume your seat. Can I have the remarks directed through the chair.
MR HARGREAVES: Certainly.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: And Dr Foskey, please let us not have a game of tennis here.
DR FOSKEY: Excuse me; I am leaving.
MR HARGREAVES: You might as well because you are wasting everybody’s time.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Hargreaves, you have got the floor.
MR HARGREAVES: Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. I will deal with Dr Foskey at another time, probably in a public arena. I will challenge you to a debate on it. You cannot frighten these people out there; they have been frightened enough.
This government—the Stanhope government—in this budget continues the $30 million enhancement in building stock in public housing. It has enhanced the community housing sector by putting out 132 properties in head leasing across the
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