Page 1945 - Week 07 - Thursday, 31 May 1990
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She must also have overlooked the responses I gave to earlier questions, or certainly earlier statements I made, about the redevelopment process and the way in which that is proceeding. She should be aware that I announced some while ago that the Government was appointing a committee responsible for managing, or at least for overseeing, the clinical and related matters concerned with the redevelopment of the hospital system. This committee will, inter alia, examine questions relating to the transfer of services from one hospital to another. This committee will be meeting in the near future. Its work will begin very shortly. Already planning is going on at a bureaucratic level for some of the transfers and transitions being referred to by Ms Follett, and I will keep members of the Opposition abreast of developments in this area. I cannot, of course, answer questions about the number of jobs related to particular activities or particular bed numbers without further information, so I will provide that information to Ms Follett on notice.
MS FOLLETT: I have a supplementary question. I have heard what Mr Humphries has said about bringing the staff of Calvary under the same sorts of provisions as other staff. Therefore I would ask: what is the impact on the association which currently runs Calvary Hospital, which has a clause for its association that says, "The Association shall have the right to require its staff to comply with the medico-moral principles set out in the Association's Articles of Association"?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, that is a question that really depends on the result of negotiations between the ACT Department of Health and Calvary - - -
Ms Follett: Either they are the same or they are not. You said they would be the same.
MR HUMPHRIES: That is a question that has to be negotiated between the department and Calvary Hospital.
Mr Berry: You do not know? Have you not addressed this issue?
MR HUMPHRIES: The answer has not been determined yet, Mr Berry. You want to know what time it is going to rain tomorrow. I do not know those sorts of answers. When we have information to give you, I will let you know.
Mr Berry: For six months you have been there and you have not found out.
MR HUMPHRIES: There is not an answer to the question yet. You are asking about future facts.
Ms Follett: You said they would be on the same conditions.
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