Page 4547 - Week 15 - Tuesday, 14 December 1993
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Mrs Carnell: That is just not true.
MR BERRY: You would like to hang onto the past. I know that Liberals often like to hang onto the past. A lot of old hospices are in hospital grounds. What we are trying to do is to make something new and better for the ACT. We have promised that we will do it, and we will. We have run into difficulties with the NCPA - everybody knows that - but it is not something that is being discarded as a result. The will is still there, the promise is still there, and we will deliver. That is not something that the Liberals like to see. They are always critical of something that makes the Labor Party look good. They have a lot to be critical about, because we so often look good. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I trust that it will be a long time before any of the Liberals need a hospice; but, when they do, it will be the one that was provided by the Labor Party, and they will be very glad of it. It will be based on a promise that was made by the Labor Party, to ensure that we expand our services here in the Territory.
There is one other matter, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. Mrs Carnell often gazes upon the money tree down the back of the garden and she sees many things arising from it. She criticises us about the convalescent care unit, and continually says, "It takes only a little bit of money". It is always, "You are spending too much, or too little; you are too fast, you are too slow; you are too high, you are too low", and on and on it goes. It is quite monotonous, but it is at least consistent. You never know where she is coming from, but one thing we can always expect her to say is that it will cost only money. She will continue to gaze upon that little - - -
Mrs Carnell: That is not what I said. I said that it would cost you 25 per cent more on Acton Peninsula.
MR BERRY: What about the convalescent care unit? Will we get that for nothing? No, we get that off the little tree down the bottom of the garden, the money tree. We will go down and pluck a few notes off the money tree. It is the same, "It takes only money. Don't worry about it, Labor Government; it takes only money". And when we spend a little money we are criticised for that as well. We never expect to win in the minds of the Liberals, and we are not trying to now. What we are going to do is deliver on a promise in relation to health facilities on the Acton site. It will happen. It will happen, whether the Liberals like it or not.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: The discussion is concluded.
SCRUTINY OF BILLS AND SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Report and Statement
MRS GRASSBY: I present report No. 23 of 1993 of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation. I ask for leave to make a brief statement on the report.
Leave granted.
MRS GRASSBY: Report No. 23 of 1993 contains the committee's comments on nine Bills, 11 pieces of subordinate legislation and one Government response. I commend the report to the Assembly.
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