Page 3211 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 22 August 2012
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MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yes, I did.
MR HARGREAVES: If you stopped talking, you would hear it. Madam Deputy Speaker, the infrastructure I talk about is all the infrastructure that was put around the parliamentary triangle. I mentioned that it was a dozy idea. It cost us $8 million. That is where it was not put on the budget, unless of course the budget was to put $8 million down the gurgler.
The Hall-Kinlyside one was around blocks and leases. How can you trust anybody to deliver an infrastructure program if they do not know the difference between a block and a lease? And how can you trust anybody who is prepared to give that away to the one person that rescued the Chief Minister after she rolled the car coming back from a cricket game?
Mrs Dunne: Relevance, Madam Deputy Speaker—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Hargreaves, that is not relevant to this.
MR HARGREAVES: You cannot trust them. That was the message Mr Seselja was giving. He was saying you cannot trust them, and that is the very message I am giving out now, Madam Deputy Speaker—that you cannot trust those guys opposite because they have a culture.
On the last one, in terms of infrastructure, I had a cunning plan when I came into this place to address that issue, Madam Deputy Speaker, and that was that big piece of infrastructure called the futsal slab. What I wanted to do, which would repay the citizens of Canberra for that debacle, was to chop it up, raffle it off and send it back to Argentina whence it came. What happened was that the then Chief Minister went on a nice freebie over to Argentina, thought it was a great idea to have an indoor soccer game outdoors and put an infrastructure project in place. And do you know what the best part of it was? The circus on it. It was a circus surrounding it, Madam Deputy Speaker. There was nothing bright about it at all.
Mrs Dunne: Relevance, Madam Deputy Speaker—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Hargreaves.
Mrs Dunne: On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yes, Mrs Dunne.
Mrs Dunne: You have asked him to be relevant. The question is about the north Weston ponds. That is the subject of the report before the Assembly. Mr Hargreaves, in the last seven or eight minutes, has not mentioned the north Weston pond. I would ask that you ask him to be relevant to the Auditor-General’s report.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Will you be more relevant, please, Mr Hargreaves?
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