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• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Right, I have given you 45 email addresses from these people, who will allow you to reach the parts that you have not reached previously. What I would actually like is a commitment from you that you will change whatever you are doing, so that you get down to these people and you talk to them and find out what they want.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

There is nothing like having high aspirations! My concern is that I am not sure that the jobs that are going to be available are going to do what it is everyone is trying to achieve, ie get the people who have perhaps never worked, into jobs. My view on this was made more concrete, if you like, when I chaired a meeting in this building, which your officers attended at my invitation, and there were 45 community leaders in the room representing 15,000 of the most deprived in society. Not one of them had heard of the LDA. They...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Sorry, Manny, I do not mean to be rude, but I am on a time limit, and any answers you give also comes off my time, so I really want to talk about this. The two examples you have given, first of all about people who for generations have never worked and who are on benefit for whatever reason, the people who have never had opportunities, will want to volunteer for this programme. I hope you are right. I definitely know that sport is a tremendous catalyst, particularly in deprived communities, and I hope you are right. I am not...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

I have got 50. Can I add them to Dee's 40-odd, because I think that the key thing that I have got so far from this debate is this opportunity to say that we can bring to you information that we are picking up and have every right to pick up; that is what our job is. You have a responsibility to be open and receptive to what we bring to you. That is what Londoners understand your job is. So I think the best thing for me this morning has been that opening, and I would ask you, through...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

I would like to ask Neale [Coleman] to tell me a bit more about the Paralympics legacy. I was very pleased to hear you say that there is now a target for accreditation of sports clubs that offer facilities to people with disabilities. However, I am still concerned that every single sports club that we spoke to in London that offers help to people with disabilities, were saying that they have been starved off cash. Specifically, Members of this Assembly went to see the Camberwell Sports Club, which looks after children with very, very severe disabilities, and they have had...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Can I just come back on that and just say that this particular borough does have an absolutely first class, dedicated sports officer, but that is not getting the club in question the £50,000 that they need. I mean, seriously, I am very pleased that you say that it is a good idea, but I have heard this from the Mayor as well, who was very, very keen on the idea. There is no question and I am not for a second querying that his heart is not in this; what I am saying is I am trying to find...

• Reference: 2007/0014-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

The IPPR has said that on the evidence of previous Games the net local employment benefits of the Games will be 'relatively small' , and that we should lower our expectations to avoid disappointment later. Do you agree?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

Do you understand our concern, Mr Kiley, that you are living in a house rent-free that according to the Mayor's figures could be rented on the open market for £2,000 a week? Up to the end of your tenure, that would actually bring in or save the taxpayer £250,000 specifically at a time when there are 60,000 families in temporary accommodation, and doctors, nurses, care workers, etc., cannot afford to live anywhere near their place of work. Is this not taking accommodation for key workers to ridiculous heights?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Have you actually talked to the Government about the funding being available?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

I have a concern, and I wonder if you share it, that obviously it is a very expensive site and so if that money is not forthcoming, what would happen if there was a suggestion that it could be sold off for commercial developers for non-transport usage? Do you think that is a possibility and if it were, what would your position be on it?