Ms O’CONNOR question to MINISTER for HOUSING and PLANNING, Mr VINCENT
According to a report released the day after the Estimates scrutiny processes from Mineral Resources Tasmania, as of 2025:
South‑east Tasmania is currently facing a shortage of coarse sand with suitable physical properties for making concrete. This is largely due to the pending or realised exhaustion of the local supply of existing mines coupled with a lack of new mines.
Why was this report not released until after Estimates so no scrutiny on it was able to be conducted? Do you have any picture of what the cost implication for the stadium is, if it were to go ahead, considering the lack of available sand in the south to make the concrete required for the build?
ANSWER
Mr President, I will seek some advice on that.
It does not come under my ministry at all, so that question would need to be taken on board with another minister. I had nothing to do with that report. Thank you.
SUPPLEMENTARY QUESTION
Ms O’CONNOR – Supplementary.
Mr PRESIDENT – I will hear the supplementary.
Ms O’CONNOR – Thank you, Mr President. My question is again to the minister responsible for the stadium order. I acknowledge that he is not the minister for Resources, but is the minister confirming that he’s unaware of the detail of that report and the potential implications for the proposed Macquarie Point stadium?
Mr VINCENT – I thank the member for the supplementary. No, I was not aware of that report.
