Page 2959 - Week 10 - Thursday, 16 August 1990
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Mr Jensen: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: that is a clear imputation.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, I believe it is an imputation.
MR BERRY: Well, Mr Speaker, I will tone that down just to appease their sensitivities. They are in bed with each other and there is some doublespeak.
Mr Jensen: Unless you can bring evidence, Wayne, shut up. Put your evidence on the table or shut up. Put up or shut up.
MR BERRY: I put up the figures. You refute them. There is one-third - - -
Mr Jensen: Put up your evidence on the so-called double deal.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Through me, please, Mr Jensen.
Mr Jensen: Sorry.
MR SPEAKER: Would you please proceed, Mr Berry.
MR BERRY: I note that Mr Jensen uses the term "double deal", so I feel inclined to use it again; but I know that - - -
Mr Jensen: I said, "Put up your evidence on the so-called double deal".
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Jensen! Please desist.
Mr Jensen: Sorry, Mr Speaker.
MR BERRY: Well, if I might respond to the interjection about the so-called double deal: the so-called double dealing that Mr Jensen refers to involves the Leader of the Residents Rally party when he said that he had actually delivered Residents Rally policy. Well, he has not. What is more, the Government has said that it will close this hospital by the end of 1991. There will be a requirement to make up 930 beds in the hospital system.
I would like Mr Humphries to tell us how he is going to fit all of those beds in Calvary Hospital and Woden Valley Hospital by the end of 1991 - and you will not be able to do it with a magic wand, because it will take three to five years. And, since the new diagnostic treatment block will take one year to design and two years to construct, where will the Minister put the patients? Will he use the magic wand? No, what this Minister is about is making it attractive for the private sector to move into Canberra, and causing pain for the people of Canberra while he does it - while he extends the waiting list. He deserves to be censured.
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