❓ Opposition asks about the number of additional houses provided by the government in its first year. The Minister admits he doesn't have the exact figure but provides other housing statistics and criticises the previous Labor government's record.
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HOUSING — CHILDREN WAITING
I have a supplementary question. Considering that the waitlist has got far worse on the government’s watch — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Members to my right might not like the question being asked but I want to hear it. Mr M. McGOWAN : —and that the government has been in office for a year, how many additional houses has the government provided in that year? Mr T.R. BUSWELL
I have a supplementary question. Considering that the waitlist has got far worse on the government’s watch — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Members to my right might not like the question being asked but I want to hear it. Mr M. McGOWAN : —and that the government has been in office for a year, how many additional houses has the government provided in that year? Mr T.R. BUSWELL
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I do not have that information at hand. I can tell the member that we started with 296 houses—I can provide the list of where they are—in the past few months, which is as much as the Labor Party added every single year for 10 years. In the next two years we will build—members may like to hear this figure again—2 600 houses. It is a big number. It will take two years of work to deliver on 10 years of work. We have made a number of changes and introduced a number of initiatives in and around social housing, including the maintenance of the very scheme that the opposition is telling us we should introduce.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Members to my right might not like the question being asked but I want to hear it. Mr M. McGOWAN : —and that the government has been in office for a year, how many additional houses has the government provided in that year? Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I do not have that information at hand. I can tell the member that we started with 296 houses—I can provide the list of where they are—in the past few months, which is as much as the Labor Party added every single year for 10 years. In the next two years we will build—members may like to hear this figure again—2 600 houses. It is a big number. It will take two years of work to deliver on 10 years of work. We have made a number of changes and introduced a number of initiatives in and around social housing, including the maintenance of the very scheme that the opposition is telling us we should introduce.
The SPEAKER : Order! Members to my right might not like the question being asked but I want to hear it. Mr M. McGOWAN : —and that the government has been in office for a year, how many additional houses has the government provided in that year? Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I do not have that information at hand. I can tell the member that we started with 296 houses—I can provide the list of where they are—in the past few months, which is as much as the Labor Party added every single year for 10 years. In the next two years we will build—members may like to hear this figure again—2 600 houses. It is a big number. It will take two years of work to deliver on 10 years of work. We have made a number of changes and introduced a number of initiatives in and around social housing, including the maintenance of the very scheme that the opposition is telling us we should introduce.
Mr M. McGOWAN : —and that the government has been in office for a year, how many additional houses has the government provided in that year? Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I do not have that information at hand. I can tell the member that we started with 296 houses—I can provide the list of where they are—in the past few months, which is as much as the Labor Party added every single year for 10 years. In the next two years we will build—members may like to hear this figure again—2 600 houses. It is a big number. It will take two years of work to deliver on 10 years of work. We have made a number of changes and introduced a number of initiatives in and around social housing, including the maintenance of the very scheme that the opposition is telling us we should introduce.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I do not have that information at hand. I can tell the member that we started with 296 houses—I can provide the list of where they are—in the past few months, which is as much as the Labor Party added every single year for 10 years. In the next two years we will build—members may like to hear this figure again—2 600 houses. It is a big number. It will take two years of work to deliver on 10 years of work. We have made a number of changes and introduced a number of initiatives in and around social housing, including the maintenance of the very scheme that the opposition is telling us we should introduce.
I do not have that information at hand. I can tell the member that we started with 296 houses—I can provide the list of where they are—in the past few months, which is as much as the Labor Party added every single year for 10 years. In the next two years we will build—members may like to hear this figure again—2 600 houses. It is a big number. It will take two years of work to deliver on 10 years of work. We have made a number of changes and introduced a number of initiatives in and around social housing, including the maintenance of the very scheme that the opposition is telling us we should introduce.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Members to my right might not like the question being asked but I want to hear it. Mr M. McGOWAN : —and that the government has been in office for a year, how many additional houses has the government provided in that year? Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I do not have that information at hand. I can tell the member that we started with 296 houses—I can provide the list of where they are—in the past few months, which is as much as the Labor Party added every single year for 10 years. In the next two years we will build—members may like to hear this figure again—2 600 houses. It is a big number. It will take two years of work to deliver on 10 years of work. We have made a number of changes and introduced a number of initiatives in and around social housing, including the maintenance of the very scheme that the opposition is telling us we should introduce.
The SPEAKER : Order! Members to my right might not like the question being asked but I want to hear it. Mr M. McGOWAN : —and that the government has been in office for a year, how many additional houses has the government provided in that year? Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I do not have that information at hand. I can tell the member that we started with 296 houses—I can provide the list of where they are—in the past few months, which is as much as the Labor Party added every single year for 10 years. In the next two years we will build—members may like to hear this figure again—2 600 houses. It is a big number. It will take two years of work to deliver on 10 years of work. We have made a number of changes and introduced a number of initiatives in and around social housing, including the maintenance of the very scheme that the opposition is telling us we should introduce.
Mr M. McGOWAN : —and that the government has been in office for a year, how many additional houses has the government provided in that year? Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I do not have that information at hand. I can tell the member that we started with 296 houses—I can provide the list of where they are—in the past few months, which is as much as the Labor Party added every single year for 10 years. In the next two years we will build—members may like to hear this figure again—2 600 houses. It is a big number. It will take two years of work to deliver on 10 years of work. We have made a number of changes and introduced a number of initiatives in and around social housing, including the maintenance of the very scheme that the opposition is telling us we should introduce.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I do not have that information at hand. I can tell the member that we started with 296 houses—I can provide the list of where they are—in the past few months, which is as much as the Labor Party added every single year for 10 years. In the next two years we will build—members may like to hear this figure again—2 600 houses. It is a big number. It will take two years of work to deliver on 10 years of work. We have made a number of changes and introduced a number of initiatives in and around social housing, including the maintenance of the very scheme that the opposition is telling us we should introduce.
I do not have that information at hand. I can tell the member that we started with 296 houses—I can provide the list of where they are—in the past few months, which is as much as the Labor Party added every single year for 10 years. In the next two years we will build—members may like to hear this figure again—2 600 houses. It is a big number. It will take two years of work to deliver on 10 years of work. We have made a number of changes and introduced a number of initiatives in and around social housing, including the maintenance of the very scheme that the opposition is telling us we should introduce.
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