Page 4427 - Week 15 - Wednesday, 21 November 1990
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This Government is committed to maintaining and expanding a strong, viable and accessible public hospital system. Its commitment to fund a program - a very expensive program - from an extremely tight ACT budget is evidence of this commitment. The fact of the matter is that this Government will expand public beds from the present level of 880 to 1,000 over the next decade. That hardly seems to me to be a diminution of the public sector portion of the health system.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Duby! The time for this debate has expired.
PERSONAL EXPLANATION
MR MOORE: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: under standing order 46 I wish to make a personal explanation.
MR SPEAKER: Do you claim to have been misrepresented?
MR MOORE: Yes, I do.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed.
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, we now have available to us the draft Hansard from last night and I would like to refer to a situation last night where the Chief Minister drew attention to - - -
Mr Jensen: What page?
MR MOORE: It is on page 96. The Chief Minister drew attention to the various travel arrangements of committees and, in fact, he then tabled that document so that it became a public document, which was, of course, quite appropriate. However, at the time, Mr Speaker, the Chief Minister repeated three times that in my particular case the moneys that were spent on travel were not on government business. He said, "Not on government business, on private travel purely for self-gratification". It is repeated again later. It seems to me, Mr Speaker, that not only was Mr Kaine misrepresenting me, but much more importantly he was dragging the committee system - the area in this Assembly that is recognised as the area that is working best of all - into disrepute.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Moore! I am under the impression, from memory - I have not got the copy in front of me - that you made a personal explanation to this effect last night.
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