❓ Mr. Logan accuses the Minister of Corrective Services of a bungled prison expansion program, citing prisons with no prisoners. The Minister defends the program, highlighting faster delivery compared to the previous government's projects.
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PRISONS — INFRASTRUCTURE EXPANSION
81. Mr F.M. LOGAN to the Minister for Corrective Services:
I have a supplementary question. Does the minister now accept
that his multimillion-dollar prison expansion program is simply a bungled
failure?
81. Mr F.M. LOGAN to the Minister for Corrective Services:
I have a supplementary question. Does the minister now accept
that his multimillion-dollar prison expansion program is simply a bungled
failure?
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Mr Speaker, I will reflect —
Mr F.M. Logan : It's
a joke; you have prisons with no prisoners in them! It's a joke!
Mr D.T. REDMAN :
Given that the member for Cockburn has taken the lead in criticising this
government's program, I will say that at the end of the term of the
last government the then government, and now opposition, put in place a capital
works program to build some facilities at Bandyup. From the time of
commissioning the contract, it took 15 months. It took 15 and a half months to
contract a very, very simplistic set of buildings in Bandyup. We are going to
deliver 640 beds across three prisons in facilities substantially designed to
deal with the prison population. And we are going to do it all in 11 months.
Mr F.M. Logan : It's
a joke; you have prisons with no prisoners in them! It's a joke!
Mr D.T. REDMAN :
Given that the member for Cockburn has taken the lead in criticising this
government's program, I will say that at the end of the term of the
last government the then government, and now opposition, put in place a capital
works program to build some facilities at Bandyup. From the time of
commissioning the contract, it took 15 months. It took 15 and a half months to
contract a very, very simplistic set of buildings in Bandyup. We are going to
deliver 640 beds across three prisons in facilities substantially designed to
deal with the prison population. And we are going to do it all in 11 months.
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