Page 1729 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 8 May 2013
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Members interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Coe: there are many questions where we ask about scenarios and we ask about what options are open to the government. I think it would be a very dangerous precedent to say that Mr Hanson’s question is out of order.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, could you repeat the question? My recollection is that you said, “What would be the implications of having doctors?”
MR HANSON: My question, Madam Speaker, was: Minister, how would the inclusion of doctors at the nurse-led walk-in centre improve treatment rates at the centre?”
MADAM SPEAKER: Okay. It is possible to argue, Mr Corbell, that that could be construed as a hypothetical question. However, the question was taken and the Chief Minister has begun her answer to it. If you are going to contest that the question is hypothetical, you need to do it at the time the question is asked. There is—
Mr Barr: That is alright. You make that ruling. It has to be straight away. It applies to everyone, then.
MADAM SPEAKER: I have no problem with that but the thing is that there are a number of questions that I hear across the chamber on both sides which, if I wanted to and if I was feeling particularly tough, I would rule out of order as being hypothetical every day of the week. But I usually wait for someone to raise it as a point of order because, quite frankly, there are lot of questions here that would be construed as out of order. The Chief Minister was answering the question. Mr Coe raised—
Mr Hanson interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, I am trying to make a ruling and you are not assisting. The Chief Minister was answering a question which nobody quibbled with. Mr Coe raised a point of order. My position is that if the Chief Minister has not concluded her answer, she should come to the point of the question, which no-one has asked be ruled out of order. Chief Minister.
MS GALLAGHER: Thank you, Madam Speaker. I did conclude my remarks. I was being spoken over. I have concluded my remarks.
MADAM SPEAKER: A supplementary question, Ms Porter.
MS PORTER: Minister, what is the government doing to expand the walk-in facilities to the north and south of Canberra in support of after hours access for health consumers?
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