Page 2679 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 13 August 1991
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MR BERRY: I do not think he is enthused by being No. 8. Mr Speaker, the plan by Labor is about providing quality public hospital services. It is in stark contrast to the plan adopted by the Alliance Government. That was a plan which was based on squeezing the public sector and forcing people into private hospital beds. It is true that this is an ideological decision, and that is what separates us from the Liberal Party. We are ideologically committed to a better public hospital system. We will not injure our public hospital system to prop up the private sector.
We recognise that the private sector has a place in our community; but we know that many of the beds that are already approved in the private sector are not being utilised, so the proposition that there should be another private hospital is patently silly. That is why that proposition has been dropped. We will provide enough flexibility within our proposal to ensure that there are adequate beds for the people of the ACT to the year 2000.
Mr Humphries: With 150 cut out of it, that is very likely, isn't it!
MR BERRY: Mr Humphries continues to ignore the 95 private beds that have not been used yet. He likes to ignore some of the facts, but we will provide a better system.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
SCRUTINY OF BILLS AND SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION - STANDING COMMITTEE
Report and Statement
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, I present report No. 13 of 1991 of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation. I seek leave to make a brief statement on the report.
Leave granted.
MR COLLAERY: Report No. 13, which I have just tabled, details the committee's report on 14 pieces of subordinate legislation and 12 Bills that have been presented to the Assembly. I commend the report to the Assembly.
HIV, ILLEGAL DRUGS AND PROSTITUTION - SELECT COMMITTEE
Authorisation to Present Interim Report
MR MOORE, by leave: I move:
That the Assembly authorises the Select Committee on HIV, Illegal Drugs and Prostitution to present an interim report on a feasibility study on the controlled availability of opioids.
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