Page 2648 - Week 12 - Thursday, 16 November 1989
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Multiple Sclerosis
DR KINLOCH: Mr Speaker, my question is to Mr Berry, Minister for Community Services and Health. This is at the micro rather than the macro level. My question relates to Gloria McKerrow House in Deakin, a respite care centre established by the Multiple Sclerosis Society, which is unable to offer the care needed by MS sufferers and their families unless it receives some government assistance. Can the Minister advise the Assembly why the MS Society's request for funding has been refused and whether he would be prepared to re-examine the issue.
MR BERRY: I am not familiar with the detail of the establishment that Dr Kinloch refers to or the detail of its funding application. I think it would be appropriate for me to have a look at that and report back to the Assembly.
Telecom Vehicles
MRS NOLAN: My question is to Mrs Grassby, Minister for Housing and Urban Services. What action, if any, Minister, have you taken on requests from Telecom to have their station wagons, complete with rear compartment of technical equipment, plus possible roof-rack, categorised as commercial vehicles instead of recreational vehicles?
MRS GRASSBY: Well, it seems you want to know what contact I have had. Yes, I have had a letter from them asking them to do it.
MRS NOLAN: What action?
MRS GRASSBY: No action at the moment. I have just had a letter from them asking.
MRS NOLAN: Are you looking at it?
MRS GRASSBY: Yes, the department is looking at it.
HOSPITAL INTERIM BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MR HUMPHRIES (3.08), by leave: I move:
That the Assembly has full confidence in the Hospital Interim Board of Directors and believes that a board of management, as recommended by the Kearney report, is the most appropriate form of hospital administration.
Mr Speaker, I think it is very important for the Assembly to move quickly and decisively to attempt to clear up problems that have arisen in recent days concerning the
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