❓ Urban Connect home loans 508. Ms Sandra Brewer to the Treasurer: I refer to the Treasurer's announcement last week of the expansion of Keystart's Urban Connect scheme, about which the Treasurer has ju
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Urban Connect home loans
508. Ms Sandra Brewer to
the Treasurer:
I refer to the
Treasurer's announcement last week of the expansion of Keystart's Urban Connect
scheme, about which the Treasurer has just spoken, and its inclusion of a
shared equity product, which the Treasurer stated would encourage housing
supply that is desperately needed by Western Australians.
(1) How many Urban Connect home loans have been
taken up?
(2) How many of those accessed the Urban Connect Plus
scheme?
508. Ms Sandra Brewer to
the Treasurer:
I refer to the
Treasurer's announcement last week of the expansion of Keystart's Urban Connect
scheme, about which the Treasurer has just spoken, and its inclusion of a
shared equity product, which the Treasurer stated would encourage housing
supply that is desperately needed by Western Australians.
(1) How many Urban Connect home loans have been
taken up?
(2) How many of those accessed the Urban Connect Plus
scheme?
AnswerView source ↗
(1)–(2) The member is speaking about two
different initiatives. The first one was the Urban Connect home loan, on which
I think an answer was provided in the upper house yesterday.
Ms Sandra Brewer: Yes; what is it?
The Speaker: Member for Cottesloe, you have asked the
question. Let the Treasurer respond.
Ms Rita Saffioti: We gave you the answer!
Several members
interjected.
The Speaker: Members!
Several members
interjected.
The Speaker: Leader of the Opposition, member for
Cottesloe, do not interject. The Treasurer has only just started her response.
Ms Rita Saffioti: I mean, let us go through the member
for Cottesloe's record on housing. Let us go to when she was the head of the Property
Council of Australia.
Ms Libby Mettam: How about answering the
question?
Ms Rita Saffioti: We have!
Ms Sandra Brewer: How about you say it? Are you
embarrassed to say it?
Several members
interjected.
Point of order
Dr Tony Buti: Standing order 95 makes it quite clear
that constant interruptions should not be allowed. I ask you to bring the
opposition to order.
The Speaker: Thank you, Attorney General. I will not
uphold that point of order, but, members of the opposition, please be mindful
of the amount of interjections that you are putting across the chamber at the
moment. You are making it very difficult for the ministers to respond to your
questions and you are making it very difficult for Hansard to capture those
responses. If you carry on doing it, I am just going to have to start calling
more of you and looking at how many questions you get as well.
Questions without notice resumed
Ms Rita Saffioti: We launched a shared equity scheme,
which started last week. Is that what the member is asking—how many
have taken it up since last week? We know that there is a whole range of
initiatives. Identifying the fact that first home buyers in particular are
finding it difficult to get that deposit is why we have introduced the shared
equity scheme. We are constantly creating new policies and we are constantly
moving, and we are seeing the numbers demonstrating that they are working. Honestly,
the member for Cottesloe, as the Minister for Housing and Works said, could not
stand closer to us at press conferences. It was absolutely embarrassing. Now
she is flipping and flopping all over the place. She has no integrity and is an
absolute hypocrite—
Several members
interjected.
Ms Rita Saffioti: No, no—when it comes to
these issues. One cannot stand next to someone one day and say that this is the
best government ever and then six months later say that we are the worst
government ever. How does one do that? The member will absolutely say and do
anything.
We are very proud of
the range of initiatives we have out there. We are very proud of the range of
initiatives, and the data today, which shows a 50% increase in one instance and
a 12% increase in completions and commencements, shows that what we are doing
is working.
Does the member
oppose many of the housing developments that are out there like her backbench
or colleagues do? They are out there opposing everything.
Mr Basil Zempilas interjected.
Ms Rita Saffioti: The Leader of the Liberal Party
opposes the Floreat development. All members opposite have opposed local
housing developments. One day they are opposing those local housing
developments; the next day they say, "What are you doing about housing?"
We are trying to support these housing developments. I am proud of the suite of
initiatives that we are introducing.
different initiatives. The first one was the Urban Connect home loan, on which
I think an answer was provided in the upper house yesterday.
Ms Sandra Brewer: Yes; what is it?
The Speaker: Member for Cottesloe, you have asked the
question. Let the Treasurer respond.
Ms Rita Saffioti: We gave you the answer!
Several members
interjected.
The Speaker: Members!
Several members
interjected.
The Speaker: Leader of the Opposition, member for
Cottesloe, do not interject. The Treasurer has only just started her response.
Ms Rita Saffioti: I mean, let us go through the member
for Cottesloe's record on housing. Let us go to when she was the head of the Property
Council of Australia.
Ms Libby Mettam: How about answering the
question?
Ms Rita Saffioti: We have!
Ms Sandra Brewer: How about you say it? Are you
embarrassed to say it?
Several members
interjected.
Point of order
Dr Tony Buti: Standing order 95 makes it quite clear
that constant interruptions should not be allowed. I ask you to bring the
opposition to order.
The Speaker: Thank you, Attorney General. I will not
uphold that point of order, but, members of the opposition, please be mindful
of the amount of interjections that you are putting across the chamber at the
moment. You are making it very difficult for the ministers to respond to your
questions and you are making it very difficult for Hansard to capture those
responses. If you carry on doing it, I am just going to have to start calling
more of you and looking at how many questions you get as well.
Questions without notice resumed
Ms Rita Saffioti: We launched a shared equity scheme,
which started last week. Is that what the member is asking—how many
have taken it up since last week? We know that there is a whole range of
initiatives. Identifying the fact that first home buyers in particular are
finding it difficult to get that deposit is why we have introduced the shared
equity scheme. We are constantly creating new policies and we are constantly
moving, and we are seeing the numbers demonstrating that they are working. Honestly,
the member for Cottesloe, as the Minister for Housing and Works said, could not
stand closer to us at press conferences. It was absolutely embarrassing. Now
she is flipping and flopping all over the place. She has no integrity and is an
absolute hypocrite—
Several members
interjected.
Ms Rita Saffioti: No, no—when it comes to
these issues. One cannot stand next to someone one day and say that this is the
best government ever and then six months later say that we are the worst
government ever. How does one do that? The member will absolutely say and do
anything.
We are very proud of
the range of initiatives we have out there. We are very proud of the range of
initiatives, and the data today, which shows a 50% increase in one instance and
a 12% increase in completions and commencements, shows that what we are doing
is working.
Does the member
oppose many of the housing developments that are out there like her backbench
or colleagues do? They are out there opposing everything.
Mr Basil Zempilas interjected.
Ms Rita Saffioti: The Leader of the Liberal Party
opposes the Floreat development. All members opposite have opposed local
housing developments. One day they are opposing those local housing
developments; the next day they say, "What are you doing about housing?"
We are trying to support these housing developments. I am proud of the suite of
initiatives that we are introducing.
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