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MR WOOD: Mr Deputy Speaker, yes, the discussion is finished. I wish to make a short statement under standing order 47.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yes, all right, Mr Wood.
MR WOOD: I do not deny people opposite a reasonable holiday. I never suggested that at all. To propose that I did is a simple evasion of the issue.
HEALTH SERVICES BILL 1990
Detail Stage
Debate resumed.
Clause 21
MR BERRY (5.08): Mr Deputy Speaker, I rise to speak on the amendment which has been circulated in my name. I move:
Page 9, paragraph 21(1)(b), lines 17 to 20, omit the paragraph.
Before I go any further, Mr Deputy Speaker, I wonder whether this is the one amendment that the Government will agree to. It is a bit hard to work out which one they are going to agree to. This is how petty they are; they will not even tell us which one of our amendments they will agree to. We have to labour our way through all of these to work out where the Government is coming from. This petty Government opposite will not even tell us. The Opposition has had the courage to examine this ill-prepared Bill and ensure that appropriate amendments are attempted to improve what is really a poor performance by the Minister for Health. Earlier in the detail stage we have seen some examples which show up the Health Minister for his incapability to address the issues of hospital services and hospital service delivery as a result of this Bill.
This clause talks about the termination of the appointment of an appointed member. It is commonplace, as this Bill prescribes, for appointments to be terminated for misbehaviour, or physical or mental incapacity; but in the case of a member of the board who is a health professional the appointment is to be terminated if the member ceases to be registered to practise under a law of the Territory or ceases to be a member of his or her professional association. That means, Mr Deputy Speaker, that the only people who will be subjected to that disciplinary measure will be health professionals.
For example, if there were a lawyer or two on the Board of Health and they were deregistered, disrobed, or whatever happens to a lawyer who loses membership of a professional association, they would be able to continue on that board;
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