Yeoh: Quest for Muar swimming pool not over

PARLIAMENT | UPDATED 3.19PM | Putrajaya may reconsider the decision to axe the Muar public swimming pool project in the future based on needs and the availability of funds.

Youth and Sports Minister Hannah Yeoh told the Dewan Rakyat that the project was previously cancelled due to a lack of funds and high maintenance costs.

Yeoh said this in a written reply to Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman (Muda-Muar), who asked if the ministry was willing to consider reviving the project.

Syed Saddiq had also asked the Youth and Sports Ministry to explain why the public swimming pool component of Muar's "Hub Anak Muda" project was axed "at the last minute".

Last Tuesday, Syed Saddiq told the Dewan Rakyat that the public pool project received government approval in 2019 and 2020 - when he was the youth and sports minister - but was cancelled by the subsequent administration.

He argued that the pool was the most important component of "Hub Anak Muda" because there were no public swimming pools serving the Muar, Ledang, Bakri and Pagoh vicinity.

At the time, Yeoh told the Dewan Rakyat that Putrajaya had approached the Johor state government before but the latter did not want to pick up the maintenance bill for the pool.

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