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to Mr Connolly to hear that I do not carry around in my head exact numbers as to how many people happen to be qualified at any particular point in time.
However, Mr Duby has brought something to my attention. I will answer Mr Connolly's question by providing information that was provided on Tuesday by Mr Duby in the debate on ambulances. I quote:
But we have a ratio of qualified to unqualified staff within the service. It currently has 32 qualified staff and 19 staff at various levels working towards full qualifications. The remaining 20 staff include 11 station officers ...
So the question was answered yesterday. If Mr Connolly wants further information he should go back to the Hansard at first call.
National Women's Health Program
MR STEFANIAK: My question is to the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts. Mr Humphries, following your signing in May of an agreement for ACT participation in the national women's health program, what progress has the Government made in implementing that program?
Ms Follett: Make a ministerial statement.
MR HUMPHRIES: This is not a ministerial statement, Mr Speaker; this is a perfectly legitimate response to a question on an issue which has been raised by a member. I think it is entirely appropriate for members of this Assembly - perhaps not Ms Follett, but other members may well be interested - to ask what progress has been made in implementing the national women's health program, which is a very important matter.
In May of this year I signed an agreement with the Commonwealth Minister for Community Services and Health, as Mr Stefaniak mentioned, for joint funding for the first year of ACT participation in the national women's health program. ACT participation will see the establishment of a community based, independently managed women's health centre organisation. This centre was recommended as a priority need by a community workshop held in February this year which was widely representative of women's health interests in the ACT. The centre will be jointly funded over four years under the program and its establishment will be a two-stage process.
In the first two years it will be primarily a women's health information exchange and provide a meeting place for women's health groups. It is not intended that the centre will duplicate or replace any existing women's health services in the ACT. In the third and fourth years the
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