Page 4669 - Week 15 - Thursday, 21 November 1991
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HEALTH BUDGET
Ministerial Statement
MR BERRY (Minister for Health and Minister for Sport): May I make a short statement in relation to this matter, by leave?
Leave granted.
MR BERRY: Thank you. I will repeat what I said today, Mr Humphries.
Mr Humphries: Oh, Mr Speaker!
MR BERRY: I have leave. The health budget has found itself in such difficult times because of the action or inaction of the former Government. There is no question about that.
Mr Humphries: That is not what I am taking issue with. You said that I did nothing to fix it.
MR BERRY: And I have said that it was the inaction of the Government in relation to financial management which culminated in the Enfield report. Mr Humphries seeks to use the period after the Enfield report as his saving grace. Well, that is not the problem. The problem is what he did not do up until the Enfield report.
MR HUMPHRIES, by leave: Mr Berry has missed the point of what I said earlier on, and I repeat it. His assertion today and in the Julie Derrett program was that nothing was done about financial mismanagement. That is untrue. He knows that it is untrue.
Mr Berry: Well, it certainly looks like it.
MR HUMPHRIES: He repeated it just then. It is not true. He himself conceded in the Estimates Committee that the previous Government did do a great deal about this problem, and I ask that that be noted by Mr Berry.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO MEMBER
Motion (by Mr Berry) agreed to:
That leave of absence for 21 November 1991 be given to Ms Follett (Chief Minister) in order for her to attend the Premiers Conference in Adelaide.
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