Page 608 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 22 February 2012
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MR SPEAKER: Ms Gallagher still has the floor, if she wishes.
Ms Gallagher: No, I have finished.
Mrs Dunne: On a point of order, Mr Speaker, I would ask you to ask the Chief Minister to withdraw the accusations that people in this place are bullies.
MR SPEAKER: I am afraid I did not quite catch it, Mrs Dunne.
Mrs Dunne: Ms Gallagher said across the chamber, “There are bullies at work.” I would ask that she withdraw.
Ms Gallagher: I did, but their behaviour in question time would only support that claim, though.
MR SPEAKER: Ms Gallagher.
Ms Gallagher: I withdraw the comment.
MR SPEAKER: A supplementary, Mr Hargreaves.
MR HARGREAVES: To the Chief Minister: has the government received unanimous support from Ms Sharma for the funding of those initiatives that you just articulated? Have you received anything in the way of a positive suggestion from those opposite in regard to GPs in the ACT?
Opposition members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order! The minister.
MS GALLAGHER: The answer to both of those—
Mr Hanson interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr Hanson, you are now warned because I just spoke about turning down the interjections. Ms Gallagher, you have the floor.
MS GALLAGHER: Thank you, Mr Speaker. As we know, the Liberal Party opposed the budgets in which there was significant funding going into primary health care, particularly in the GP support fund—$12 million. The feedback we have had from those initiatives has been extremely positive. We are up to round 5 in the infrastructure grants. We have training payments going to GPs to actually train students from the ANU Medical School in their GP clinics.
We are doing everything we can to work with the Medicare local to support the existing GP workforce and to ensure that there is a workforce ready for the future. That goes to the heart of the initiatives—
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