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Strathmont Pool
The SPEAKER: The 20th opposition question for the day, the member for Torrens.
Ms WORTLEY (Torrens) (15:00): My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Human Services. What alternative arrangements have been made for the users of the Strathmont swimming pool from the community, Autism SA, Tea Tree Gully Swimming Club and the Swim Safe Swim School as a result of the government's closure of the Strathmont pool, and how many users are yet to be accommodated elsewhere?
The SPEAKER: Again, a fair bit in that question. Minister.
The Hon. S.K. KNOLL (Schubert—Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Local Government, Minister for Planning) (15:01): I am happy to take the substance of that question on notice, but say that the discussions I have had on this topic with the Minister for Human Services are such that discussions are being had with all the groups that currently use the Strathmont Centre.
As I understand it, there are a number of pools around the place, including the ARC at Campbelltown, as well as Angle Vale repat. There are a number of pools that are being provided as options to be able to relocate people. As I understand it, there are one or two groups yet to find a suitable alternative home, but Human Services is working through that and has been in consultation with these groups for a long period of time.
This is a pool that has for a long time been slated as a pool that will become dangerously inadequate and unsafe. I think that the first responsibility that governments have is to ensure safety. In this regard, this is the responsible course of action that the Minister for Human Services is taking. I am happy to take the detail of that question on notice, but say that the minister is doing everything that she should be doing to make sure that we keep people safe. There have been consultations that have been undertaken over a long period of time, and the department is working to help relocate and find alternative arrangements. We look forward to that continuing and being completed in due course.