Page 727 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 12 March 1991
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The Acton nursing home is one of two new facilities currently planned to replace Jindalee. This is consistent with modern nursing home philosophies, which encourage a move away from large, impersonal institutional structures towards creating a more homelike environment. Options for the location of the other new nursing home are still being examined.
In the longer term, the Government also intends to provide a new purpose-built facility at Acton to house the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital for Mothers and Babies. This proposal has, however, been deferred, pending the outcome of the joint study. This gives the Government the opportunity to choose the optimal site for the location of this important facility. In short, the Government has used the opportunity presented, as a consequence of the public hospitals redevelopment project, to expand and to improve the range of health services available to the people of Canberra. As well, this beautiful site will become more readily accessible for the recreational benefit of the total community.
MINISTER FOR HEALTH, EDUCATION AND THE ARTS
Motion of Censure
MR BERRY, by leave: This motion arises out of concern over the hospitals budget and the failure of the Minister to provide adequate hospital services throughout the ACT. One of the important issues associated with this motion is that we will be depending on the support of Residents Rally members.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Berry! You have not moved the motion. You have been granted leave, but you now have to move it before you can speak.
MR BERRY: I move:
That the ACT Legislative Assembly censures the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts for his failure to provide adequate health services and for his failure to control the budget in his portfolio.
We will need, as I said, the assistance of Residents Rally members to have this motion carried. We will need them to show some disloyalty to their Alliance Government colleague Mr Humphries. That does not seem to be something that they would be terribly uncomfortable with because we have seen examples in the past of Residents Rally party members, in particular Mr Collaery, being disloyal to the Alliance Government. What we are hoping for is that Mr Collaery and his colleagues will assist in censuring this Minister for this dreadful - - -
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