Page 2794 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 13 September 1994
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To get one in the ACT would be simply absurd; but, once again, the standard style of Mrs Carnell is to shoot from the lip and say, "Here is a media opportunity; we will have one". Who can forget the promise of the Tuggeranong hospital a little while ago, "Yes, we will build another hospital"? All of this, Mr Acting Speaker, is in the context of your party's written pledge, tabled in this Assembly, your counterbudget, to slash over $30m from the health budget. During question time earlier today I heard the chatter and the clatter, and the natter and the pratter, from opposite about problems in Health. If you think Health is stressed now, imagine it with over $30m slashed from it, because that is what your leader has promised in this place.
Mr Humphries: Utter rubbish! She has done nothing of the sort. She has not.
MR CONNOLLY: That is what she has promised in this place. She has promised that, Mr Humphries. Be very careful not to mislead this Assembly, Mr Humphries, because in your written, printed counterbudget, your promises over three years are to reduce health expenditure by over $30m - savings in health expenditure, comprising $26m, through casemix - - -
Mr Humphries: That is a distortion.
MR CONNOLLY: That is utterly accurate, Mr Humphries. Again, be very careful not to mislead this Assembly, because Mr Moore is very careful about people misleading the Assembly. You may stray into dangerous waters here.
Mr Kaine: I raise a point of order, Mr Acting Speaker. If Mr Connolly does not come down off the ceiling soon he is going to need his own decompressant.
MR ACTING SPEAKER: And no doubt divers other things.
MR CONNOLLY: Just let me continue. You pledged $26m to be slashed from the health budget for so-called casemix, $5m to be saved from the health budget for so-called contracting out, $1m to be saved from the health budget for administrative costs, and $2m to be saved from the health budget for privatising Jindalee. Over $30m is pledged to be saved from the health budget over three years, and that does not even include the $5m that you are going to take out, according to last Friday's ABC radio interview, and give to tourism promotion.
Ms Follett: I ask that further questions be placed on the notice paper, Mr Acting Speaker.
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