Page 2923 - Week 13 - Thursday, 23 November 1989
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Hospitals
MR HUMPHRIES: My question is addressed to the beleaguered Minister for Community Services and Health. I refer to the letter from the acting chairman of the Interim Hospitals Board of Directors, Mr Ian Meikle, to the Minister, and in particular the section of that letter concerning the tough options facing the Minister in the area of hospital management. It states:
I know you are not entirely comfortable with the industrial consequences, but the choices, short of additional funding, are running short.
I ask the Minister: if the tough choices demand the elimination of some existing privileges of hospital staff or the privatisation of some hospital services, can he give an unqualified assurance that these options will be pursued by this Government?
MR BERRY: I think I have answered this question before, Mr Speaker.
Mr Humphries: No, you have not. You have never answered it.
MR BERRY: The question has been answered fully before, Mr Speaker.
Lease Purposes
MR MOORE: My question is directed to the Minister for Industry, Employment and Education as Minister for development. Given the information that has already come to light in question time about approaches made by the YMCA for a further lease purpose change in relation to the building across the road, which is used for taxation offices, does the Minister recall that the initial lease purpose change was conditional on the provision of recreational sporting facilities at least equivalent, but I think additional, to those which would be lost through the redevelopment for office accommodation? If so, what has the Minister done, or what will he do, to ensure that that long outstanding condition is honoured?
MR WHALAN: It is correct that a concession was received from a former Commonwealth Minister in relation to the payment of betterment on the site which has been referred to, and that was conditional upon those funds being applied to the provision of further community facilities. The YMCA has undertaken to meet that commitment with the establishment of facilities within the Territory.
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