House debates Questions without Notice

Building the Education Revolution Program

Thursday, 17 June 2010 House of Representatives

Joanna Gash

Joanna Gash Gilmore, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Tourism

3:13 pm

My question is to the Minister for Education. I refer the minister to a media report that the Reed Group has been awarded a $1 million bonus for building 10 prefabricated libraries, each of which will cost almost twice as much as those built for Catholic schools in New South Wales. Does the minister agree with Kylie Gorton, President of the Parents and Citizens Association at the Stroud Public School, that, ‘We did not get value for money,’ and, ‘The government needs to be held accountable for this complete misuse of taxpayers’ funds’? Why isn’t the minister as angry as Ms Gorton and why do you not take real action to stop the rorts rather than hide behind your toothless task force?

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