Page 1081 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 20 March 1991
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To promote equality of educational opportunities, and to provide for groups with special learning requirements.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Dr Kinloch, the time for this debate has expired. The time for private members' business has expired. You may resume your statement at the next opportunity.
Sitting suspended from 12.30 to 2.30 pm
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Hospitals - Nursing Staff
MS FOLLETT: My question is directed to Mr Humphries, the Minister for Health. Mr Humphries, in response to a previous question on nursing staff from Mr Berry, you said:
Yes, absolutely. I deny that potential nursing staff have been turned away.
Mr Speaker, I table a copy of a letter, signed by the acting staff officer at Royal Canberra Hospital, advising a nurse that there are no vacancies at Royal Canberra Hospital North. My question is: Will the Minister concede, as he has in the past, that he has misled this Assembly?
MR HUMPHRIES: No, I do not. As a matter of course I treat these allegations as suspect until they are confirmed. I would be happy to look at the document that Ms Follett has tabled. I might point out that the quotation she has taken from that particular answer is slightly out of context. What I said was that the only occasions that people were turned away from positions was where positions were not available for the sort of work that they were qualified to do, or where they were seeking shifts that were not available at that particular time in the hospital system. However, I will take that question on notice and get back to Ms Follett with the answer.
MR SPEAKER: Ms Follett, before we go any further, I would just ask you to seek leave to table that document.
MS FOLLETT: I seek leave.
Leave granted.
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