Page 3268 - Week 12 - Thursday, 19 November 1992
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Mr Stevenson: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. I waited during the preamble, hoping that the Minister would get into answering the question; but he obviously has not started that yet. Could you please direct the Minister to answer the question?
MR BERRY: I am answering the question. If you want to - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Mr Berry will answer the question as Mr Berry chooses to answer the question. Please proceed, Mr Berry.
MR BERRY: If the member wishes to rise in this place and take a political position on a particular matter such as AIDS, he deserves a political answer and he deserves to be discredited for his stand on the issue. Mr Stevenson truly deserves to be discredited for his position in relation to the campaign against AIDS in this country.
Health Budget
MRS CARNELL: My question is addressed to Mr Berry, the Minister for Health. Yesterday in question time you said, in response to a question from Ms Ellis:
It -
that is, the amount that Health was over budget -
was about 3 per cent at this time last year and it is a little higher than that right now ...
You, and later Ms Follett, went on to say that it was quite normal for the first part of the financial year to show a higher than average net expenditure rate. I ask the Minister to explain why his own financial performance report to 30 November 1991 shows that last year ACT Health was 2 per cent under budget, not 3 per cent over as he said yesterday. Does the Minister admit that he misled the Assembly yesterday, or is it just that he does not understand the health budget? I would like the 30 November figures to be incorporated in Hansard.
MADAM SPEAKER: You will have to seek leave to do that, Mrs Carnell.
MRS CARNELL: I seek leave.
Leave granted.
Document incorporated at Appendix 3.
MR BERRY: I table answers to a couple of other questions that Mr Stevenson put to me.
Mr Kaine: Are they relevant to this question?
MR BERRY: No. I just table them while I am on my feet.
In relation to the question which was asked by Mrs Carnell, I do not have the figures for last November. But what I have said to Mrs Carnell is - and I announced it here in the Assembly yesterday - that the figure - - -
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