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That the Assembly take note of the paper.
and on the amendment by Mrs Dunne:
Add: “and that the Assembly calls on the Minister for Health, by the end of the current sitting period, to:
(1) provide the Assembly with a full chronology of events, starting with the time when problems with the main switchboard were identified initially and concluding with the signing of the contract on 7 April 2017 with Shaw Building Services to replace the main electrical switchboard; and
(2) table the AECOM risk assessment report on the performance of infrastructure at The Canberra Hospital, referred to in the hearings of the Select Committee on Estimates 2016-2017 on 29 June 2016.”.
MS FITZHARRIS (Yerrabi—Minister for Health, Minister for Transport and City Services and Minister for Higher Education, Training and Research) (3.33): I move an amendment to Mrs Dunne’s amendment:
Omit all words after “and that the Assembly”, substitute:
“(1) calls on the Minister for Health, by the end of the current sitting period, to provide the Assembly with a full chronology of events, starting with the time when problems with the main switchboard were identified initially and concluding with the signing of the contract on 7 April 2017 with Shaw Building Services to replace the main electrical switchboard; and
(2) notes the AECOM risk assessment report on infrastructure at The Canberra Hospital, referred to in the hearings of the Select Committee on Estimates 2016-2017 on 29 June 2016, cannot be tabled in the Assembly as it is Cabinet-in-Confidence and, therefore, cannot be provided.”.
As members will know, I gave an extensive account, a 20-minute, 17-page account in fact, of all the issues relating to the switchboard incident at the Canberra Hospital. I subsequently answered a number of questions in the chamber this week. I would like to assure all members of the Assembly, as I did earlier this week, that the seriousness of this incident has not been downplayed, as Mrs Dunne stated. In my statement I clearly said that this was a serious matter that took the full attention of ACT Health.
In response to part (1) of Mrs Dunne’s amendment requesting that I provide the Assembly with a full chronology of events, starting with the time issues which were initially identified with the main electrical switchboard and concluding with the signing of the contract on 7 April 2007, I can advise the following.
In November 2015 the government agreed to an ACT Health recommendation to deliver a funding proposal for work to address infrastructure risks at the Canberra Hospital. This work was undertaken by AECOM on behalf of ACT Health. The
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