Page 3159 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 12 September 1990
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$600,000 in full year terms - $310,000 better than you provided - - -
Mr Humphries: How could it? Twice $150,000 is not $600,000, Mr Berry.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Humphries!
MR BERRY: He is an outrageously disobedient person, that Mr Humphries. I think he needs to be dragged into gear. There is no talk in Mr Humphries' submission of a first class service to the mentally ill any more. He cannot make that claim any more. He cannot claim that he will provide adequately for the mentally ill any more, because he has made it clear to the people who require those services that such a service is not going to be available under this Government, irrespective of the claims which have been made in the past. This Government is full of hollow claims. Two Ministers opposite have failed to provide properly for people with mental illnesses.
Mr Humphries has confirmed that in this budget statement. He has confirmed that the funding that they have provided for the mentally ill in the ACT is inadequate. He said that a full service will not be provided. There is no denying that. Mr Humphries, along with the other Ministers opposite, is a disgrace. He has learnt nothing by visiting the services which are provided in nearby New South Wales, and, as a result of his inability to learn, the people who require services for the mentally ill in the ACT will suffer.
Debate (on motion by Ms Maher) adjourned.
PRIVILEGE
Statement by Speaker
MR SPEAKER: I wish to make a statement on a matter of privilege. On 16 August 1990 the Leader of the Opposition gave written notice of a possible breach of privilege concerning the divulging of unpublished committee evidence by the Attorney-General. Members may recall that, during questions without notice in the Assembly on that day, Mr Collaery tabled a copy of a letter from himself to Ms Follett as the presiding member of the Committee on Public Accounts. Under the provisions of our standing orders I must determine whether or not the matter merits precedence over other business.
Our standing orders provide that, with certain exceptions and the evidence taken by any committee, documents presented to committees, and proceedings and reports of committees shall be strictly confidential and shall not be published or divulged by any member of a committee or by any other person.
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