Page 2804 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 14 August 1990
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Mr Humphries: Where do you get this rubbish from?
MR BERRY: Well, you are doing it. It is in your own plan. It is in your own plan.
Mr Humphries: There is nothing about transferring beds to the private sector. We are closing private sector beds. Get that through your head.
MR BERRY: Well, what we are going to do is double the amount of private sector beds in the ACT, double the amount of private hospitals in the ACT.
Mr Humphries: We are closing private sector beds in Calvary.
MR BERRY: Double the amount of private hospitals in the ACT and this Minister - - -
Mr Humphries: And increase the number of public beds.
Mr Duby: We are increasing the number of public beds.
MR BERRY: You keep out of it because I do not think you know what you are talking about. He does not.
Mr Duby: We are increasing the number of public beds.
Ms Maher: You are just misinterpreting it.
Mr Humphries: He is increasing the number of public beds.
MR BERRY: He is not increasing the number of public beds. Mr Humphries said today that he would be maintaining the number of public beds. That is what he said today. But he did not say that as a percentage because, in percentage terms, there will be fewer public sector beds available to the people of the ACT. There will be double the amount of private sector beds.
Mr Humphries: Oh, as a percentage; that is different. You increase the number of public beds, but somehow you take something away because the percentage increases.
Mr Duby: Wayne, you never could add up. Do not pretend you can now.
Mr Humphries: Where are the numbers?
MR BERRY: I was never a bookie.
Ms Maher: Maybe you would have learnt something if you were.
MR BERRY: Well, Craig did not. The fact of the matter is that the Government is a government of privatisation.
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