Page 3391 - Week 12 - Tuesday, 11 October 1994
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MRS CARNELL: I have a supplementary question, Madam Speaker. I draw the Minister's attention to the 1993-94 annual management report of Health, the annual report which shows - - -
Mr Berry: That is not a supplementary question, Madam Speaker.
MRS CARNELL: It is totally a supplementary question, Mr Berry. It shows that on 30 June this year Woden Valley Hospital had 560 beds. Remember that the question that you answered was asked on 16 June.
Mr Berry: Madam Speaker, I have a point of order. Supplementary questions have long been accepted, even when they are borderline. I think this one has gone a little over the border and really is not a supplementary question.
MRS CARNELL: It has not. It is exactly the same question.
Mr Berry: Mrs Carnell admits that it is not a supplementary question.
MRS CARNELL: I do not, and if you listen you will see that it is a supplementary question.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mrs Carnell, if you had started with the direct inference from the previous material, it would have been more direct in making sense; but continue.
MRS CARNELL: At the end of June, as I have already said, there were 560 beds; yet official figures, Mr Connolly, provided by Woden Valley Hospital, to 31 August this year show that there are 562 beds. That is two beds, Mr Connolly. I ask the Minister: Did he mislead the Assembly in his answer to my question on 16 June and probably again now?
MR CONNOLLY: That, of course, is a grubby, sly little innuendo, for which Mrs Carnell is famous. If she wants to say that I am misleading the Assembly, she should use the proper forms. Mrs Carnell, in my answer to your first question, I said, "My last recollection of the number was that it was of the order of 580-odd". I said, "I will get you that information". As I say, that is what I was told as of a couple of days ago. I will get you that information and give it to you. If you want to persist with these grubby little tactics, move a substantive motion.
Mrs Carnell: I seek leave to table the document which backs up my 562 figure.
Leave granted.
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