Page 2384 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 6 August 1991
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MS FOLLETT: Mr Collaery indicates a total misunderstanding of the process of government decision making if he thinks that that issue could have come to the Government without it having been circulated amongst the Government's agencies, as indeed it was. In looking at the issue, the Government was well aware of the views of the Housing Trust and other government agencies, and took them fully into account. So, Mr Collaery's assertion that they were not consulted is absolutely baseless.
Hospital Facilities
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, my question is addressed to the Minister for Health. Will he tell the Assembly how long he has had the report of the review of hospital facilities on the Acton Peninsula and why this report has not yet been released? Will he also tell us when he intends to make it public; or does he intend to keep the covers on this report, just as he intends to keep the covers on the report which purported to investigate serious complaints concerning the Ambulance Service?
MR BERRY: I thank Mr Humphries for his question. It gives me the opportunity, Mr Speaker, to tell the Assembly about the necessity for the report and what will be said later in these proceedings in relation to the review.
Members would be aware of the depth of the damage that has been done to the hospital system as a result of the Alliance Government's inability to deliver appropriate health services for the people of the ACT. The incoming government had a commitment - a different commitment, of course, from the conservatives opposite - to ensure that there were better hospital services in the Territory. But we had to accept that there had been 18 months of a conservative government with a very conservative Minister who had wrought havoc in the hospital system. That was quite evident from the length of the waiting lists that people had to endure.
Mr Kaine: That was why you fired another half a dozen ambulance officers, was it?
MR BERRY: Could I do this without interruption from this week's Leader of the Opposition, who is sitting beside last week's and so on.
Mr Humphries: Mr Speaker, on a point of order: I have asked the Minister a very simple question, namely, where is the report? Could I please have an answer to that question.
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