Page 1802 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 1 May 1991
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Question put:
That the motion (Mr Moore's) be agreed to.
The Assembly voted -
AYES, 8 NOES, 9
Mr Berry Mr Collaery
Mr Connolly Mr Duby
Ms Follett Mr Humphries
Mrs Grassby Mr Jensen
Dr Kinloch Mr Kaine
Mr Moore Ms Maher
Mr Stevenson Mrs Nolan
Mr Wood Mr Prowse
Mr Stefaniak
Question so resolved in the negative.
HEALTH SERVICES DETERMINATION
Motion for Disallowance
Debate resumed from 17 April 1991, on motion by Mr Berry:
That the determination of fees and charges as contained in Determination No. 8 of 1991, and made under the Health Services Act 1990, be disallowed.
MR HUMPHRIES (Minister for Health, Education and the Arts) (11.11): Mr Speaker, Mr Berry, during the last private members' session, moved his motion concerning the disallowance of a determination made by Mr John Bissett which related to increases in a number of fees and charges levied under the Health Services Act of 1990. That was, of course, Mr Berry's ostensible purpose; but, as usual when he talks about hospitals, he ranged over a whole series of other irrelevancies. It is not surprising that there should be a great deal of material in what he said which has no direct bearing on what it was that he was supposed to be moving, which was a motion of disallowance. Towards the end of his comments he indicated fairly clearly the flaw, the essential flaw, in the argument he was bringing forward, which I will touch on in a moment.
The determination in question is one which increased charges in a number of areas. It was made under a delegation from me exercised by Mr Bissett. The determination had the effect of increasing charges for accommodation at board hostels - not hospitals, I might note, but board hostels - where a person is not an extended stay resident. It increased charges for hospital accommodation for nursing home type patients. In relation to the nursing home beds accommodation fees, it increased the range by between 70c and 84c, depending on the number of patients in a room, and it increased fees for particular
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