Page 1649 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 30 April 1991
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Mr Duby: One question was asked and there were five points of order because you do not like what you hear. That is the problem; you do not like what you hear.
MR BERRY: They have been there for months. Mr Duby does not care. All he cares about is his fat salary and his glossy car. He does not care about the community; he never has. The No Self Government Party - what a joke!
Mr Duby: Glossy car? Do you mean your car that I drove around in for a year and a bit?
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Duby, please! Order!
Mr Duby: With the tow bar.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Duby, I warn you.
MR BERRY: What a joke! All he cares about - - -
Mr Duby: The one with the tow bar. How many times do you go to the dump, Wayne?
MR SPEAKER: Mr Duby, order!
Mr Duby: How many times do you go to the dump?
MR SPEAKER: Mr Duby, order! Resume your seat.
Mr Connolly: I take a point of order. Name him, Mr Speaker. You warned him, and he is still abusing you.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Duby, I warn you. Please proceed, Mr Berry.
MR BERRY: Of course, Mr Duby is touchy on this issue. He is very touchy on this issue because he has not done any work since he has been here. That is the difference between what happened under Labor and what happened under this Government. Cruisers is what they are. Mr Humphries is proof; he is a cruiser. He is just cruising along, not worried about what is going on in the hospital system. Mr Speaker, the Government has demonstrated that it is unable to manage the hospital system. As shown by the amount of inaction by this Minister, it will continue to perform similarly.
Once that report was received, some time passed before it was digested. It was well over a month before anybody acted on it, and I have to say that it was not the Minister. He did nothing again. He was not interested in the issue. The first reports on the need for action arising from the report came from the Interim Hospitals Board, which occurred around about the end of January. In a letter to the Minister, the board made a plea for help. Bearing in mind that the Minister had done nothing up to this stage, the board made a plea for help to do something about the difficulties in the hospital system; and now we see the debacle.
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