Page 4235 - Week 15 - Tuesday, 20 November 1990
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MR SPEAKER: Thank you for your observation, Mr Berry. I have asked that the house allow Mr Humphries to proceed in this manner, as we gave you time.
Mr Berry: No.
MR SPEAKER: Please make a personal explanation at the end of question time, Mr Humphries.
MR HUMPHRIES: Yes, Mr Speaker. To answer the second part of Mr Berry,s question, I do not know what the position is as far as - - -
Mr Berry: Would you like me to repeat it? A little bit of water has passed under the bridge since I - - -
MR HUMPHRIES: Yes, it has, hasn't it - a little bit of steam out of the ears. The fact is that work carried on in respect of the Royal Canberra Hospital North site is carried on to maintain that facility as an ongoing facility available to the people of Canberra. There seems to be some misconception, widely pushed and promoted by the Australian Labor Party, that the closure of the Royal Canberra Hospital North, as a hospital, entails the destruction of facilities of a health nature to the benefit of the people of Canberra on that site, and that is totally and utterly untrue.
The fact is that work will need to go on on that site over the next few months and few years to ensure that it continues to be available as a health facility for the people of Canberra. I am happy to examine the particular issue of the boilers. I am not generally in day-to-day command of issues that deal with the erection or the conversion of boilers in the hospital. However, I will take that part of the question on notice and get back to Mr Berry and advise him of any dire political implications of the changing of the nature of the boilers in the Royal Canberra Hospital North.
MR BERRY: I have a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. In the knowledge that Mr Humphries has not been able to advise this place of what those new health facilities will be - - -
Mr Humphries: I will answer that question too, when I come to it.
MR BERRY: Yes. Perhaps he might find out the cost of the boilers and the cost of the labour to install them, and advise the Assembly.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Berry has asked about the facilities going onto that site. Although he might allege that he was not actually asking that question, I think that, in fairness, he was, and we are happy to advise Mr Berry about the nature of the services to go onto that site. The Government has made a decision about a number of
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