Page 1266 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 16 April 1991
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So, all in all, I think there have been a number of good decisions made by the Government about this, and I am sure that the Canberra population generally will endorse the actions being taken to further improve the service by the Government to the people.
Mr Berry: Does that mean that children over six years will get a bed in the hospital?
MR DUBY: Not necessarily so and, as I said, I am confident that the - - -
Mr Berry: There has to be a lottery system before you can get a bed. Is that the way you are going to run the whole Government?
MR DUBY: The situation, as I said, exists where at the moment vehicles of the ages of one, three and five years are exempt. This simply further reduces, on statistical evidence, the requirement for inspection. I know for a fact, Mr Deputy Speaker, that the members of the population accept it wholeheartedly.
Hospital System
MS MAHER: My question is to the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts. Has the Minister seen a press release from Mr Berry which calls on the Minister to provide the Opposition with "a priority briefing on the state of our hospital system"? Will he agree to this request?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I thank Ms Maher for that question. Mr Berry's office did contact me earlier this month to ask whether a briefing could be arranged on the state of the hospital system or, more specifically, on the hospital redevelopment. I know, because I took that call myself. I informed Mr Berry's office that a briefing would be arranged. I asked the ministry to organise this. I also asked the member of staff from Mr Berry's office when they would like the briefing to take place. That staff member told me that any time in the next month would be fine. Seven working days later, while I was attending the Education Ministers meeting in Adelaide - it is funny how the Opposition always decides to make these little surprise attacks when Ministers are away - Mr Berry issued a press release in which he called on me to provide the Opposition with a "priority briefing" on the hospitals.
I cannot understand what Mr Berry is on about. He wants a priority briefing, but any time in the next month will do. I do not understand what a priority briefing in those terms actually means. I would like him to explain that to me some time. I think it is hard to believe, Mr Speaker, that Mr Berry is genuinely interested in the management of our
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