Page 3298 - Week 12 - Tuesday, 18 September 1990
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Mr Berry refers. They are the present services offered to the people of Weston Creek. Why any greater service should be necessary is hard to see. The needs for these services have been assessed over a continuing period. They have not changed because the Government has made any - - -
Ms Follett: How do you know?
MR HUMPHRIES: To answer Ms Follett's question, the needs that are served by the health centres are continually assessed by the people that provide those services. I am absolutely confident that, if a need was identified which could not be addressed by these moves, and if a need which was addressed could not be met by these new arrangements - - -
Members interjected.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Berry, your question is being answered by Mr Humphries and you are not listening.
MR HUMPHRIES: It is perfectly plain, even to Mrs Grassby, that, if needs are addressed by the staff at that centre or by the people who presently provide services to the people of Weston Creek, these needs would be addressed by these new arrangements as well, since those staff are talking to the Government about these issues.
Asthma Drugs
MRS NOLAN: My question is also to Mr Humphries, this time in his capacity as Minister for Health. Can the Minister inform the Assembly about recent reports about doubts of the safety of asthma drugs?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I am sure that without interjections I will be able to give a very short answer to Mrs Nolan's question. I would like to reassure members at the start that the safety of asthma drugs is not in doubt. Mrs Nolan no doubt refers to the article in the Canberra Times yesterday on the subject.
Mr Wood: The report did not say it was. Those who read that or heard it knew that there was no danger with the drugs.
MR HUMPHRIES: I think that these matters are of some concern, Mr Wood, to the people of the ACT. I know it is not as juicy a subject as school closures; it is not a nice juicy issue you can attack the Government on. But it is still of concern to people in the ACT who happen to suffer from asthma.
Recent reports relate to the excessive reliance by asthmatics on the use of over-the-counter drugs. These are airway relaxing drugs commonly used in aerosol inhalers.
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