Page 853 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 13 March 1991
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My questions are as follows, and they number four: Firstly, how would this be done? Secondly, what scientific evidence is there to suggest that urinalysis is effective in the determination of total fluoride ingestion? Thirdly, where in the world is this used on a community basis? And, fourthly, where in Australia would these tests be made?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I cannot answer those questions at the moment, but I am happy to take them on notice and I will get back to Mr Stevenson.
Hospital Services Budget
MS FOLLETT: My question is to Mr Kaine as the Treasurer. I ask Mr Kaine: Will you give a commitment that your Gaming and Liquor Authority and Community Development Fund slush funds, which came about as a result of the abolition of both those bodies, will not be used to bail out the hospitals budget?
MR KAINE: First of all, I do not know about any slush funds. If there were any, they were created by the Labor Government when they were in office, I would have to point out; but I do not believe that there are any. Secondly, the purposes for which the money was paid into the Community Development Fund in the first place would certainly preclude that money, so far as the Community Development Fund is concerned, being used for the purposes that you described. The purposes are quite clearly defined. If there is any Labor Government generated slush fund in the Gaming and Liquor Authority, that, such as it is, would go into Consolidated Revenue, and it would be used for whatever purposes this Government thinks is appropriate. I certainly would not give you that sort of guarantee in connection with that money, if there is any.
Board of Health
MR BERRY: My question is to the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts. Mr Humphries, have you directed the Board of Health to relieve the chief executive of any of his statutory duties under the Health Services Act 1990? If so, under what section of the Act was the direction made?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, the answer is no.
MR BERRY: I have a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. The Act is specific about the powers and duties of the chief executive, and there is no provision for removal of part of the duties only, or for sharing the duties. When will the Minister and the board comply with the Act?
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