Page 2026 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 28 May 1991
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What you hate is that this Government has done things that you always talked about but never did. You did not establish a birthing centre; this Government is doing it. You did not establish a hospice; this Government is doing it. If you look at all the projects that are involved in that $35m - and I do not know whether that figure was accurate; I did see the list of projects that ostensibly were included in it - they are all new policy proposals adopted by this Government to enhance our health delivery system, not part of the hospital reconstruction program at all. They are additions to it.
So, let us get our terms right. There is a hospital redevelopment project costed at $154m in 1989 dollars. That project will be completed within that budget. It will not expand; it will not blow out. In fact, the indications are that it will be completed well within that budget. These other things are in no way connected with it.
Motor Vehicle Insurance
MR STEVENSON: My question is to Mr Duby, as being responsible for transport. By what reasoning, moral or otherwise, do some insurance companies void policies held by drivers who are involved in accidents while exceeding legal blood alcohol limits, thereby limiting or preventing other innocent parties from claiming against the offender's policy?
MR DUBY: I thank Mr Stevenson for the question. To put it frankly, in short, I would imagine that the circumstances that you described are part of the contract that people enter into with the insurance company when they take out that policy. However, I am not an expert in these matters. I shall seek further advice and provide Mr Stevenson with the answer when available.
MR STEVENSON: By way of a supplementary question, Mr Speaker: Would Mr Duby state or check whether or not, when taking out vehicle registration, the insurance taken out for personal liability at that time is void under the same circumstances? If not, why is there a difference?
MR DUBY: I will take that matter on notice.
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