Page 5811 - Week 14 - Wednesday, 7 December 2011

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Members interjecting—

MR SPEAKER: One moment. Stop the clocks. Chief Minister, sit down. Mr Hanson, the little interjection was unhelpful. I actually suspect the Chief Minister might answer the question but you distracted her. If we try and ask the questions and then try and answer them we will all have a much better question time.

Mr Hanson: On your point of order, Mr Speaker—

MR SPEAKER: There is no point of order.

Mr Hanson: I would like to raise a point of order then.

MR SPEAKER: On a point of order, yes.

Mr Hanson: Under standing order 42, ministers are required to direct their answers through you. The minister clearly was not. She has been engaging directly—

MR SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, sit down.

Mr Hanson interjecting—

MR SPEAKER: Sit down, Mr Hanson.

Mr Hanson interjecting—

MR SPEAKER: Really, Mr Hanson, I think that you—

Members interjecting—

MR SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr Hanson, that is a preposterous point that you have just sought to make, given the way you treated the Chief Minister after she had answered a question. Chief Minister, you have the floor to answer the question, thank you, and not talk about the Liberal Party.

MS GALLAGHER: Thank you, Mr Speaker. It will give me great pleasure not to talk about the Liberal Party. The budget submissions from both hospitals come to the budget cabinet. They are not necessarily hospital specific. For example, we will have funding that comes for increased elective surgery. That will go through to both hospitals. There have been additional submissions from both hospitals that have come to budget cabinet that have not been supported. There is a finite amount of money that is available and the budget cabinet takes those decisions.

In relation to the emergency department, both emergency departments have been provided with additional resources for improvements to their emergency department through the agreement that we signed with the commonwealth government. In relation to Calvary hospital’s performance in the last year in relation to emergency departments, the advice I have been given is that it is related to the seven per cent


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