Page 1570 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 31 March 2009
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you confirm whether there are remaining defects in the alarm system, specifically defect 2.6?
MR HARGREAVES: As I indicated earlier, on 20 March, Bovis Lend Lease handed the prison facility to the territory on receipt of certification by the independent evaluator, the independent auditor, on the systems that all of the systems were fine. My understanding is that all of the issues on the robust nature of the security system contained in clause 2.6 have been addressed and that there is nothing outstanding in the contract as would prevent that prison operating at full pace.
This facility is a first-class facility. It has been built in accordance with the contract, part of which Mr Hanson has referred to. I have to indicate to the Assembly that it is a bit of a shame that people do not actually understand what it is that we have got out there, the state-of-the-art facility.
Some people are calling for another perimeter fence, possibly one made out of brick, but that has been delivered in accordance with the contract. There is a perimeter fence already there, believe this or not.
Mr Corbell: There are two, actually.
MR HARGREAVES: There are two perimeter fences, actually. In that sense, I table a picture of a perimeter fence. Do you know what the inside fence is? It is not the perimeter fence. This is the perimeter fence. I table the following document:
Alexander Maconochie Centre—photograph.
We have a criticism that we do not have a chapel. Yet that member opposite was sitting in the very committee and said, “Have you got a chapel?” We said, “No. We have got the money in the budget to build it. It is $513,000 over two financial years.” This is part of the contract to which Mr Hanson refers.
Mr Smyth: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: the question was quite specific. It asked the minister to confirm that defect 2.6 had been rectified to the original specifications. He has yet to answer that question.
MR SPEAKER: I am sorry. Would you say that again?
Mr Smyth: He has yet to answer the question. The nub of the question is: has defect notice 2.6 been fixed to the original standard?
MR HARGREAVES: On the point of order—
MR SPEAKER: Mr Hargreaves, before you go on—
MR HARGREAVES: On the point of order, I have indicated to Mr Hanson part of the answer to his question on 2.6, and now I am elaborating on the answer to his question on 2.6.
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