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and the waste industry award conditions for the daily average rate of garbage or darg. The redistribution of collection zones, which was necessary because of growth of existing suburbs since the contracts were previously let, will allow for the forthcoming development of Gungahlin and it is shown that nine zones with nine collection vehicles will be required rather than the previous system of seven zones with seven vehicles.
That change to nine zones from the previous seven involves no capital costs to the Government as the additional two vehicles will be provided from reserve vehicles held for the north side collection and the trade waste service.
Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, I raise a point of order. It seems to me that this is a ministerial statement. Could we get some indication from the Minister as to how long he is going to be on this matter?
MR SPEAKER: Thank you for your observation, Mr Berry, but I do not believe that is a valid point of order. Please proceed, Mr Duby.
MR DUBY: If Mr Berry would take the wax out of his ears, he would realise that I have finished.
Hospital Services
MR BERRY: My question is directed to the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts. Mr Humphries, in a 9 November interview on Capital TV you said, in what I would describe as a disgraceful admission:
Naturally not having Royal Canberra means that there is a certain hole in services ...
What is this hole, and which services and how many beds will be cut?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, that comment was taken out of context. The comment was made in the context of a longer answer which was, I have to say, most inexpertly cut from the rest of the statement. I was referring to something quite different and I am very happy to take it up with Channel 10 and to discover the full context of the question and the answer. I think that the context is made very different by the question that was actually asked in that case. In answer to the last part of your question about bed numbers, I have indicated already that there will be no loss of public bed numbers as a result of this reorganisation.
Mr Berry: You have done it.
MR HUMPHRIES: No, there will not be, Mr Berry.
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