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Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [5]
- Question by: Dee Doocey
- Meeting date: 13 October 2004
Thank you, Chair. I have one further question. I would also like, if possible, for you to deal with the question of volunteers. Could you tell me how you plan to engage the large army of volunteers that will be necessary to run the Games, so that they are more than just `meeters and greeters', and that they get totally immersed in all aspects of the Games, in the run-up to, during, and after the Games?
Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [6]
- Question by: Jenny Jones
- Meeting date: 13 October 2004
Jenny Jones (AM): Well, that is not what local people think.
Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [7]
- Question by: Jenny Jones
- Meeting date: 13 October 2004
`Temporary' is two years. You are moving that football club on, that's Sunday league, for two years.
Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [8]
- Question by: Jenny Jones
- Meeting date: 13 October 2004
Let us look at the cost, then. It is expensive to start taking green space and then reconstitute it. Why not just leave it and find another option?
Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [9]
- Question by: Jenny Jones
- Meeting date: 13 October 2004
It has actually proven quite difficult for me to sit here and listen, and not stand up and shout, `rubbish,- because you are talking about environmental sustainability, you are talking about legacy in east London, and yet you are planning to tarmac over a piece of Hackney Marshes: East Marsh... You are ignoring the wishes of the local people, who have come up with several other options instead of tarmacking over a piece of green space. Why are you not consulting the local people? I can give you three suggestions. I have a map and can point to these places...
Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [10]
- Question by: Jenny Jones
- Meeting date: 13 October 2004
Why not save yourself the money of building a car park? Why not make that space beautiful without'?
Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [11]
- Question by: Jenny Jones
- Meeting date: 13 October 2004
Jenny Jones (AM): They know the area better than you, I would suggest.
Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [12]
- Question by: Bob Blackman
- Meeting date: 13 October 2004
I just wanted to move on to some of the lessons learnt with the Paralympics and the Olympic Games themselves, because it became a bit, in Athens, of shall we say "after the Lord Mayor's show." That was very unfortunate, I think, given the high levels of competitors and the great interest there is in the UK in the Paralympics. Therefore, has any thought been given either to moving the Paralympics to be held before the main Olympic Games, or to go back to where we were and to integrate the two sets of Games, so that they are part...
Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [13]
- Question by: John Biggs
- Meeting date: 13 October 2004
The first is that I am a great fan and supporter of the Olympic bid, as I hope you know, not least because it benefits my constituents enormously. One of the assurances that I think some people in east London, where there is some residual cynicism about the bid, would like is assurances about the ways in which you are going to link the bid into local contracting, local recruitment, training of local people, and relationships with local schools, so that it will be a bid that strengthens the area. There is a history of colonial intervention in east London...
Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [14]
- Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
- Meeting date: 13 October 2004
As the member for the area that Jenny just spoke about, I do have to start by just thanking Jenny (Jones) for her cross-party support on this. I also have to say this is has been a matter that has exercised the previous Member for this area, myself, and the elected members of the borough, and it was central to the discussion of the five-borough bids. All that could be done has been done, and it is one area where we have got some assurances, and also, the community are going to win before the Games, whether we get the...