Page 5555 - Week 15 - Wednesday, 9 December 2009
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forward. It is one which Little Company of Mary Health Care accept but it is one which the opposition refuses.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Smyth, a supplementary?
MR SMYTH: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Minister, given that you have not finalised your position, what is still under negotiation with Little Company of Mary over the purchase of Calvary hospital and the sale of Clare Holland House?
MS GALLAGHER: The concerns that have come through, I have to say, apart from—
Mr Coe interjecting—
MS GALLAGHER: Just listen, Alistair. You are getting really, really boring. We have put up with you all year, but it is the final sitting week.
Mr Coe: How good of you, Katy; how good of you.
MS GALLAGHER: Exactly. It is very good of me to have put up with you, I reckon, and to have been tolerant. But, please, Mr Smyth asked me a question and I am going to try and answer it, and perhaps I can do it without little interjections like that.
The concerns that have been raised—
Mr Hanson interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Stanhope: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. Really, the interjections today are beyond the pale. I really do urge you to exercise some control over the chamber. This really is beyond the pale today, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Stanhope has a good point: it has been rather out of control today. I ask members of the opposition to refrain.
MS GALLAGHER: Thank you, Mr Speaker. The concerns that have come through, and nearly all of the concerns that have been raised with me, have been around the hospice, not around the hospital. There are a couple, including the archbishop, who are concerned around the hospital, but the healthcare consumers that I have spoken to—I have met with the Division of General Practice, I have met with the AMA, I have met with the ANF—
Mr Smyth: But have you finalised your negotiations with LCM?
MS GALLAGHER: I am getting to that, Mr Smyth. I am just—
Mr Hanson: I have a point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Stop the clock, please, Clerk.
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