Page 3349 - Week 12 - Tuesday, 18 September 1990
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There is no community input into the formation of his budget. The Treasurer went on to say that this consultation with himself was supplemented by inputs from the Trades and Labour Council and from CARD.
But the TLC has stated that it had no consultation with the Government on the budget.
No, I did not leave it out, Mr Kaine. It is in there, in the record, in the Hansard. You are quite wrong.
Mr Collaery: Did you read it out?
MS FOLLETT: Of course I did.
MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, I claim to have been misrepresented in the speech by Mr Kaine.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed, Mr Berry.
MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, there are a number of misrepresentations, but to make the point - - -
Mr Collaery: And they all hurt.
MR BERRY: Misrepresentations always do hurt, Mr Collaery.
The Chief Minister claimed that there was a blow-out in the hospital budget and that I did nothing.
Members interjected.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, we are going to have to put the bag on these people before we let them in here at night-time.
Mr Kaine: I noticed you were very silent when I tried to speak! The boot is on the other foot, now, mate.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Chief Minister, please. Mr Berry, please proceed.
MR BERRY: I am prepared to give it away if I cannot get a word in.
Mr Speaker, the Labor Government moved quickly in response to a reported blow-out in the hospitals budget and it subsequently appointed an expert group to examine that issue. This group did carry through that proposal, but Mr Kaine seems to have had selective amnesia. It was his group that took over government from the Labor Party and later on acted on the report from the group that was sent in by the Labor Party. The way that his group acted on that report is the issue that is of concern and this, of course, led subsequently to a cutback in public hospital
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