Page 5906 - Week 18 - Wednesday, 11 December 1991
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MR BERRY: This issue, Mr Speaker, demonstrates the level of interference in the affairs of the Board of Health to which the member opposite is prepared to go. This Assembly went through a lengthy debate about the provision of figures by the Board of Health; a motion was passed, calling on me to provide those figures; I have subsequently required the board, in accordance with the legislation, to provide the figures to me in order that I can give them to the member. If he wishes to vary the motion which has been put before this place in relation to those figures, perhaps it is an appropriate course for him to take.
But let me say this: He mentions two sets of figures. There is only one set of figures, and that is the set that I have given him, in accordance with the directions of this Assembly. I do not have a separate set of figures. You have asked for, and I think at great impost the board supplies, a set of complete figures each month, and it will continue to do that as I have directed it to do it.
Mr Humphries: What is the effect of the business rules, then?
MR BERRY: Another member of the Liberal Party asked me a question about the business rules, and I have provided him with them. The issue of a separate set of figures does not arise from the business rules. The business rules merely demonstrate the circumstances under which funding will be provided to the Board of Health.
MR HUMPHRIES: I have a supplementary question. Do I take it that the Minister is advising the Assembly that the operation of the business rules does not have any effect on the actual amount that is expended by the Board of Health vis-a-vis the amount that is appropriated for the Board of Health under the budget?
MR BERRY: No, you take it wrongly. If, under the business rules, the Board of Health seeks supplementation and it accords with the business rules, then supplementation will be provided.
Mr Humphries: Do they show up in those figures that were given to us?
MR BERRY: Mr Humphries now asks whether or not these figures show up in the most recent ones provided to him. Mr Humphries got behind a motion in this place to provide that set of figures. Those are the figures for expenditure and so on which were provided to the end of November. I think he has a full supply of information in relation to expenditure.
Mr Humphries: To the end of October.
MR BERRY: Yes, it was to the end of October. Time slips away when you are enjoying yourself.
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