Page 2531 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 13 October 1992
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Mr Kaine: He will not answer the question, any more than the Chief Minister, and you know it.
Mr Berry: There he goes again.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order, Mr Kaine!
Mr Berry: He needs to be sat down and kept quiet for a little while. Do not get so heated.
Mr Kaine: I do not need his advice, Madam Speaker, and I would ask you to protect me from this man.
Mr Berry: You do need it and you should take it.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Kaine, Mr Wood has the floor.
MR WOOD: The Leader of the Opposition is wrong in his assumptions. It is always dangerous to make assumptions. He is making an assumption which is quite wrong. He said, "Was the recommendation of the panel the one that you accepted?". That is an incorrect assumption, Mr Kaine.
Mr Kaine: Were there several recommendations?
MR WOOD: Well, you may now speculate.
Mr Kaine: No, I do not want to speculate. I want you to answer the question.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
MR WOOD: The Chief Minister has said a number of times, and I will say it again, that the panel came back to us with documents, and the decision that the Government made was a decision entirely within the recommendations, the advice, that we received from that panel - entirely and properly within it.
Mr Kaine: First advice or second advice?
MR WOOD: I will answer that interjection. There was no first advice; there was no preferred nominee; there was no second advice. The panel came back in the manner that I requested that it do in an appropriate form, and it was the Government that made the decision in the context of the information that we received from them. If you believe otherwise, you are making assumptions that are quite malicious and unwarranted.
Ms Follett: I ask that further questions be placed on the notice paper.
Woden Valley Hospital - Psychiatric Beds
MR BERRY: Madam Speaker, on 9 September Mrs Carnell asked a question in relation to psychiatric beds at the Woden Valley Hospital. I table an answer to that question.
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