Page 5385 - Week 17 - Tuesday, 3 December 1991
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MR JENSEN: Mr Speaker, in view of the answer, will the Minister check with the authority whether they conducted on-ground inspections of the following blocks: Wanniassa, section 287, block 2, which is a policy plan change; section 20, blocks 37 and 36, which is also a policy plan change; Kambah, section 202, block 10, part; section 272, block 8, which is an investigation area; and another policy change; Kambah, section 530, block 1, and section 531, block 2? Or are they identified as part of an ambit claim as opposed to a proper policy plan change?
MR WOOD: Mr Speaker, I will get Mr Jensen the information he wants.
Ministerial Accountability
MR KAINE: I would like to ask another question of the Minister for Health. Given his absolute commitment to the principle of ministerial accountability and his expressed intention to answer with good grace, would he care to give the Assembly an absolute commitment that, before this Assembly goes into recess on 17 December, he will create a precedent and answer a question?
MR BERRY: I think that is a frivolous question.
Woden Valley Hospital
MRS NOLAN: Mr Speaker, my question is also to Mr Berry in his capacity as Minister for Health. I would like to ask the Minister what he considers to be an appropriate time for a patient, having been admitted to casualty and having been told that he or she must then enter Woden Valley Hospital, to remain in casualty waiting for a bed?
MR BERRY: The best time, the optimum time, is straightaway.
Mrs Nolan: They go from casualty to the hospital?
MR BERRY: Yes, that is the optimum time.
MRS NOLAN: I ask a supplementary question. Given that that does not happen, what do you think is an appropriate time - two hours, six hours, eight hours?
MR BERRY: Well, what do I say? I think I said that Minister I might be, doctor I am not. You cannot make a simple judgment about - - -
Mr Kaine: Just venture an opinion, Minister.
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