Page 5165 - Week 17 - Thursday, 13 December 1990
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MR BERRY: Thank you.
Mr Humphries: You have already spoken. What about at the end of the debate, Mr Speaker?
MR BERRY: I can do it any time, but the debate is over.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Under the circumstances, this debate might go on all night. I suspect that you might have to do it first thing - - -
Mr Kaine: That is right - and he can wait until the end, which would make everybody else happy.
Mr Stefaniak: Then he might forget, and it is probably not very important anyway.
Mr Kaine: We will probably have another dozen personal explanations by the time we get to that.
MR BERRY: We probably will.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Under standing order 47, a member who claims that his speech has been misinterpreted may speak again, so if you want to proceed under that - - -
MR BERRY: Either way. I am relaxed about that; that suits me.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed.
MR BERRY: I am very relaxed about the whole issue; it is just that I want to clear up some claims of misinterpretation. It has been suggested that I might leave this until the end of the debate tonight. I think that by then the misinterpretations, misrepresentations, or however one likes to describe them, would fill a book, and I would prefer to deal with them as they come up. The claims from the Government, of course, would fill a book. The Chief Minister said that I was in some way misleading this place with my statements that the Government was moving to privatise public hospital services. He then turned around and said that the Government was, in fact, intending to privatise hospital services, when he explained to the Assembly that he was expanding the private hospital system by up to 10 per cent.
I do not know what interpretation the Chief Minister puts on "privatisation", but expanding the private hospital sector at the expense of the public hospital sector at a rate of - - -
Mr Jensen: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. My point of order is very simple. Mr Berry seems to be making a speech rather than getting on with explaining where he claims to have been misinterpreted or misrepresented, whatever the case may be.
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