Page 1771 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 15 June 1993
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She said later that the way to achieve this was to conduct an independent inquiry. She was talking about benefits to the community. She went on to say:
What I feel is necessary is a broad-ranging inquiry independent of the Government and which takes information from the emergency service personnel, the legal system and the hospital system, as well as public submissions. The terms of reference should be broad enough to allow the inquiry to determine a model of emergency service delivery which takes into account the needs of all those who need to rely on emergency services ...
She continued:
Its findings should be open to public scrutiny and objection.
She concluded:
I feel that the need expressed in this motion is a real one ...
Mr De Domenico also spoke on the motion. He said:
What this motion is all about, Madam Speaker, is this: Once and for all, let us get it right.
He continued:
Let us get it all together to make sure that the ACT, at a time when we are now negotiating to have our own ACT public service, gets it right the first time. Now is the time to do it. It is forward thinking and I am proud to support the motion.
The people that spoke on the motion, apart from the members of the Labor Party, suggested that it would be a good idea to have the inquiry to determine the future use and operation of emergency services across a wide range of areas within the ACT. Mr Connolly, in response to a statement by me, said:
No, we will have an inquiry. If the Assembly decides it, we will have one.
In concluding the debate, Mr Humphries said, talking to the Government:
... I hope that, as a result, it will accept the spirit in which this motion is offered as a way of resolving a matter of great tension, both within our emergency services and in some elements of the community, about these changes. I hope that we will see a peaceful and cooperative resolution of these problems through the agency of this motion.
The motion was put and the question was resolved in the affirmative, on the voices.
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