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something that needed to be looked at in my own case will not be borne out by the reading of the proceedings in this matter.
Motion agreed to - clause omitted.
Clauses 21 and 22, by leave, taken together, and agreed to.
Title
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister) (12.26): I move:
Page 1, omit "consultants and".
The purpose of the amendment is simply to omit the words "consultants and" from the long title. The reasons for this are obvious. We have just omitted that entire part from the Bill.
Amendment agreed to.
Title, as amended, agreed to.
Bill, as amended, agreed to.
Sitting suspended from 12.27 to 2.30 pm
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Woden Valley Hospital
MR COLLAERY: My question is to the Health Minister, Mr Berry. I refer to previous questions in this house concerning staff disturbances at Woden Valley Hospital and ask you whether you are prepared to set up an independent inquiry as quickly as possible to investigate complaints of sexual harassment and discrimination, physical and verbal abuse and other matters affecting ward staff at the hospital.
MR BERRY: I think this is the third time this question has been asked, and if I chose to raise a point of order I think the question could in fact be ruled out of order because it has been asked three times. However, there is one particular matter that I would like to raise in relation to this question and that is the statement by Mr Collaery about this issue that was reported in the press. He was reported as claiming that I said that the people involved in the issues which he had raised would be left to themselves. That is not what I said.
My clear position in this is that, if there is a disciplinary issue that needs to be dealt with by management, it should be dealt
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