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Clause 46
MR HUMPHRIES (Minister for Health, Education and the Arts) (9.01): Mr Speaker, I move:
Page 15, line 33, omit "Sections 41 and 42, this", substitute "This".
Mr Speaker, this is only a consequential amendment on the removal of clauses 41 to 43.
MR BERRY (9.01): Mr Speaker, this is serious legislation and it deserves a serious approach, and well might you groan in the Opposition benches, because - - -
Mr Duby: No, no. We are the Government; you are the Opposition.
Mr Connolly: A temporary aberration.
MR BERRY: Yes, it is a very temporary arrangement. Well might you groan on the opposing benches. This clause, of course - - -
Mrs Nolan: We are just taking some words out - "Sections 41 and 42".
Mr Humphries: You have to support it, or it makes no sense.
MR BERRY: Yes, I understand what you are doing. This, of course - and there is another one of these at clause 55, I think it is, too - is a consequential amendment. But I think that each time they arise it needs to be drawn to the public's attention that the Government has deserted them and has ensured that their public hospital services will be of a lesser strength because of the Government's action in weakening its own legislation.
I think, Mr Speaker, that every attempt should be made to point out the Government's weaknesses. It has worked as far as schools and hospitals are concerned; it will work again in terms of these sorts of legislative provisions, as they are weakened by this Government.
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