❓ Mr. McGowan questions the Minister for Housing about a significant increase in vacant public housing, linking it to the new maintenance model. The Minister attributes the increase to more refurbishments and promises to investigate the maintenance contracts.
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PUBLIC HOUSING — WAITLIST
I ask a supplementary question. How does the minister explain the number of vacant houses jumping from 272 to 520, an increase of 248 houses since March, other than by the minister’s new maintenance model? Mr W.R. MARMION
I ask a supplementary question. How does the minister explain the number of vacant houses jumping from 272 to 520, an increase of 248 houses since March, other than by the minister’s new maintenance model? Mr W.R. MARMION
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The nexus between the term maintenance contracts I will be looking into. But the issue is about keeping it as low as possible. I have mentioned that we are trying to do that. But there are more refurbishments. I will show the member another graph. That shows the number of refurbishments undertaken by our government versus the number of refurbishments undertaken by the previous government — Several members interjected. Mr W.R. MARMION : That is not as bad as the previous graph, of course. We are doing more refurbishments; and the more refurbishments we do, the more houses we have that are vacant.
Mr W.R. MARMION replied: The nexus between the term maintenance contracts I will be looking into. But the issue is about keeping it as low as possible. I have mentioned that we are trying to do that. But there are more refurbishments. I will show the member another graph. That shows the number of refurbishments undertaken by our government versus the number of refurbishments undertaken by the previous government — Several members interjected. Mr W.R. MARMION : That is not as bad as the previous graph, of course. We are doing more refurbishments; and the more refurbishments we do, the more houses we have that are vacant.
The nexus between the term maintenance contracts I will be looking into. But the issue is about keeping it as low as possible. I have mentioned that we are trying to do that. But there are more refurbishments. I will show the member another graph. That shows the number of refurbishments undertaken by our government versus the number of refurbishments undertaken by the previous government — Several members interjected. Mr W.R. MARMION : That is not as bad as the previous graph, of course. We are doing more refurbishments; and the more refurbishments we do, the more houses we have that are vacant.
Several members interjected. Mr W.R. MARMION : That is not as bad as the previous graph, of course. We are doing more refurbishments; and the more refurbishments we do, the more houses we have that are vacant.
Mr W.R. MARMION : That is not as bad as the previous graph, of course. We are doing more refurbishments; and the more refurbishments we do, the more houses we have that are vacant.
Mr W.R. MARMION replied: The nexus between the term maintenance contracts I will be looking into. But the issue is about keeping it as low as possible. I have mentioned that we are trying to do that. But there are more refurbishments. I will show the member another graph. That shows the number of refurbishments undertaken by our government versus the number of refurbishments undertaken by the previous government — Several members interjected. Mr W.R. MARMION : That is not as bad as the previous graph, of course. We are doing more refurbishments; and the more refurbishments we do, the more houses we have that are vacant.
The nexus between the term maintenance contracts I will be looking into. But the issue is about keeping it as low as possible. I have mentioned that we are trying to do that. But there are more refurbishments. I will show the member another graph. That shows the number of refurbishments undertaken by our government versus the number of refurbishments undertaken by the previous government — Several members interjected. Mr W.R. MARMION : That is not as bad as the previous graph, of course. We are doing more refurbishments; and the more refurbishments we do, the more houses we have that are vacant.
Several members interjected. Mr W.R. MARMION : That is not as bad as the previous graph, of course. We are doing more refurbishments; and the more refurbishments we do, the more houses we have that are vacant.
Mr W.R. MARMION : That is not as bad as the previous graph, of course. We are doing more refurbishments; and the more refurbishments we do, the more houses we have that are vacant.
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