Page 392 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 23 February 1993

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Mr Moore: So you will support my Crimes (Against the Government) (Amendment) Bill tomorrow, will you?

MR BERRY: I did not know that it was coming up, Mr Moore.

Mr Moore: We can bring it on if we need to.

MR BERRY: Right. So those secrecy provisions are absent from that health legislation. They are picked up by the general public service disciplinary provisions and by the very piece of legislation that you refer to, but it is important that there is secrecy in some respects in relation to some matters of health care, particularly patients' confidentiality and so on and so forth.

So, Madam Speaker, there we have it - a piece of legislation which is designed to replace a bygone era and get on with a new task and set the pace for health in the future. It is legislation that I think will hold us in good stead. As has been said, there are a number of amendments around in relation to it, particularly the consequential provisions. On the face of it they look as though they are weighty, but close examination reveals that they are not weighty at all; they are merely changes in references from such things as "the Board" to "the Minister" and those sorts of things. It just represents the transfer from the board to departmental status.

Question put:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 10  NOES, 1 

Mr Berry Mr Stevenson
Mr Connolly
Ms Ellis
Ms Follett
Mrs Grassby
Mr Lamont
Ms McRae
Mr Moore
Ms Szuty
Mr Wood

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to in principle.

Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.

Bill agreed to.

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