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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 5 Hansard (15 May) . . Page.. 1468 ..

MR MOORE (continuing):

Mrs Carnell has moved for the deletion of paragraph (2), which provides that no further contracts be entered into. I am interested in this committee reporting on broad concepts about the relationship between private and public hospitals, about whether private hospitals can ease the workload of public hospitals or whether private hospitals simply take the lucrative part out of public hospitals and effectively make public hospitals more expensive, and about the impact that would have on hospital funding and waiting lists - matters which Mr Berry always takes a great interest in. That is the sort of outcome I want to see from this committee.

In supporting the appointment of this committee, it is certainly not my intention to stop in its tracks the process by which this private hospital is set up. Because of that, I shall be supporting the first amendment that has been moved by Mrs Carnell to delete paragraph (2).

MS TUCKER (11.45): I am prepared to support the amendment to delete paragraph (2). It had not been my impression that the function of this committee was to stop what was happening. A contract has already been signed. I take Mrs Carnell's word for that. She says that it has been signed and that the process is under way. If that proves to be wrong, then it will be on her head.

I will not support the other amendment moved by Mrs Carnell to impose a reporting date on this committee. I take the work of committees very seriously. It is obviously a very short time. I would not support that date being imposed on the committee before I have had a chance to look at the amount of work that is going to be required.

MR SPEAKER: I will put the amendments seriatim.

Question put:

That amendment No. 1 (Mrs Carnell's) be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

	AYES, 11	 NOES, 6

	Mrs Carnell	Mr Berry
	Mr Cornwell	Mr Corbell
	Mr Hird		Ms McRae
	Ms Horodny	Ms Reilly
	Mr Humphries	Mr Whitecross
	Mr Kaine	Mr Wood
	Mrs Littlewood
	Mr Moore
	Mr Osborne
	Mr Stefaniak
	Ms Tucker

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