Page 4234 - Week 15 - Tuesday, 20 November 1990
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I reject the assertion that a gross inconvenience has been imposed to date or is likely to be imposed without remedies being adopted and being put in place and I will satisfy myself of the fact that the hospital has taken into account the needs of all patients in the system.
Royal Canberra Hospital
MR BERRY: I have a question for Mr Humphries; but before I ask it, Mr Speaker, I seek leave to table a transcript of a Channel 10 report of an interview with Mr Humphries on Friday, 9 November 1990.
Leave granted.
MR BERRY: As I said, my question is to the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts. Mr Humphries, the steam boilers at Royal Canberra Hospital, the Acton site, are being replaced by hot water boilers. This exercise is being carried out in great haste, with staff being required to work overtime to ensure that the boilers are in place by Christmas. Did this replacement need to take place, since the Minister has announced that the hospital is to close by the end of next year?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, first of all in answer to Mr Berry,s tabling of that report from Channel 10, Mr Berry has misunderstood the answer I gave to his earlier question about that clip. I am not suggesting - - -
Mr Berry: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker. Mr Humphries is not responding to the question I asked and I think he is required to do that.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Berry, I believe that the house has given you the benefit of the time taken to present your paper. I think it is only right that Mr Humphries be allowed to respond.
Mr Berry: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: He can make an explanation after question time. All I require is an answer to my question.
MR HUMPHRIES: I will give you an answer to your question when I finish the other part of the answer.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed, Mr Humphries.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I was not saying that my interview with Channel 10 was - - -
Mr Berry: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. That is not the question I raised with Mr Humphries. If Mr Humphries has an explanation he can give it in due course under standing order 46.
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