Page 1420 - Week 04 - Thursday, 26 March 2009
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Assembly. So the short answer is: there are two pieces of work, both will be done, presumably, and what I have said is that the work that we will do—
Mr Hanson: Presumably?
MS GALLAGHER: The committee’s work is out of my control. My piece of work will be done and when that work is finished it will be handed to the Assembly for their consideration. So two separate pieces of work basically will be done and hopefully we will come up with some additional recommendations for the Assembly to consider.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, a supplementary question/
MR HANSON: Minister, what did finally force you to act on this issue when your previous position, as late as last week, was:
All we can do is I guess seek the corporate good will of some of these providers …
MS GALLAGHER: To understand the GP workforce shortage issue and then to use a quote, which I presume was taped by your staff member at one of the press conferences I gave, because you do not actually cite where that grab was heard—
Mr Hanson: The grab? Yes, I can cite it for you if you want, and I can table it.
MS GALLAGHER: Well, from wherever; presumably it was related to the specific issue of the closure of Kippax family practice. The closure of the Kippax family practice is one very small element of the issue of GP workforce shortage, so the quote that you talk to—
Opposition members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MS GALLAGHER: The rabble that the opposition are—they ask questions, they do not want to hear the answer, and then they misinterpret whatever any minister stands up and says. Talk about relevance deprivation! You guys, four years over there with nobody listening to you, have just started talking to yourselves and becoming little comedians.
Opposition members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MS GALLAGHER: You all crack each other up but no-one else is laughing, you see. It is a very good strategy if you are looking at entertaining yourself.
The issue I was talking about is that the Kippax family practice—let us just say it slowly so that Mrs Dunne can understand—is one small part of the GP shortage in the
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