Page 996 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 28 March 1990
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Mr Kaine: You can do it after the debate. Mr Humphries was refused.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Collaery: What is this?
Mr Moore: I will be very brief, Mr Speaker; I only need 30 seconds.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Whilst I was out of the house was Mr Humphries refused?
A member: No.
Mr Collaery: Where were you misrepresented? I gave you a compliment.
Mr Moore: Early in his speech Mr Collaery suggested that I was just saying "most" or "some" people. I specifically referred to a recommendation, the said recommendation by the birthing centre. I will just read four or five lines from that to illustrate the point:
The preferred location of a Birth Centre, if there is to be only one, was shown to be RCH, by an inspection of usage statistics which indicated that RCH services all areas extensively. WVH and Calvary Hospitals are much more regionalised in maternity service delivery.
I shall not go on to debate the significance of that, but I think it does clarify my position.
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General): Mr Speaker, I claim to have been misrepresented. There is a suggestion, under standing order 47, that I misled the house.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Mr Collaery, please proceed.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, I table now for the information of members a speech given by Josephine Schumann representing the ACT for Birth society. I draw the attention of members to a statement in that tabled document that ideally the centre should be located within a separate facility outside hospital grounds.
Mr Moore: On a point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: No. Order!
MR COLLAERY: Right? The grounds of all three existing hospitals in the ACT.
Mr Moore: He cannot do it under standing order 47. "No debatable matter may be brought forward nor may any debate" and that is what he is doing.
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