Page 3298 - Week 12 - Thursday, 19 November 1992
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ADJOURNMENT
MADAM SPEAKER: It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Mr Berry: I require the question to be put forthwith without debate.
Question resolved in the negative.
HEALTH BUDGET
Ministerial Statement
MR BERRY (Minister for Health, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport) (4.31): Madam Speaker, I seek leave to make a short statement in relation to a question which was raised by Mrs Carnell earlier in the day.
Leave granted.
MR BERRY: Earlier in the day Mrs Carnell raised a question and in an accusatory way suggested that the house may have been misled in relation to a question to which I responded yesterday. Of course, that is not the case. She paraded some figures from November 1991 as something comparable to the quarterly report which was issued at around about September. She also suggested that the house had been misled in some way because I and Ms Follett had talked about budgets having blown out by some percentage points. Of course, we never said that.
Mrs Carnell: You did.
MR BERRY: If you look at Hansard you will see that I talked about activity levels.
Mrs Carnell: I told you that that is what he would say.
MR BERRY: All the way through it I referred to activity levels.
Mrs Carnell: The question was about the $8m blow-out; so - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Mr Berry has been granted leave to speak by the Assembly. Please allow him to speak.
MR BERRY: That is it. I referred to activity levels all the way through.
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