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Strathmont Pool

Ms WORTLEY (Torrens) (14:29): My question is to the Premier. Premier, why is the government closing the Strathmont swimming centre in January 2019?

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL (Schubert—Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Local Government, Minister for Planning) (14:29): I take this question on behalf of the members in the other place in relation to Strathmont and to provide the bit of detail that we have, and that is that the Hon. Michelle Lensink is working through what to do with the pool there that exists for the use of some local residents but also some people with some specific needs. She is still working through a process of how we transfer that across.

It is fair to say that this is a pool that isn't in great nick, that has not seen much reinvestment over a long period of time. I think it has been quite clear to say that this is a pool that has been going along and will be used up until the point at which it no longer becomes safe. There are a lot of other things that were being used on that site that are no longer on that site and, as the government, we then need to take some decisions about where to next from where. But this is a site that has been run down continually over the past 16 years. This is a pool that has been run down and has been slated that at some point it is no longer safe to use. We are fast approaching that time.

But for those people who use that pool, what we have is a government here that is listening, that is working with them, that is trying to find some alternative arrangements for them. I know that the Hon. Michelle Lensink in the other place is doing a fantastic job trying to find a very good and workable solution and certainly not to give in to the claims of hysteria that we saw on the television a month or so ago but actually trying to find a workable solution.

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