Page 2746 - Week 09 - Thursday, 26 August 1993
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MRS GRASSBY: Yes. I would not like to be Minister for Health, and I think Mr Berry - please wait for the next part of it - has done a wonderful job. I commend him on the job he has done with a very difficult portfolio. The Opposition can sit over there and laugh their heads off, but we all remember Mr Humphries's blow-out. He got out of it very easily because he also closed down a hospital, which cut his expenses even more. People forget this. You can sit over on the other side and you can jeer and you can laugh, because you all have short memories, Mr Humphries. We on this side have long memories and we remember. Like Sicilians, we never forgive and we never forget. So do not forget that, Mr Humphries.
I am proud of the job the Minister has done here and I am proud of our departments. Our departments, after four years of self-government, have learned that there are not buckets of money, that there is only one cake and it can be cut only certain ways. In the next Assembly, when I am quite sure Mr Berry will be Minister for Health, if he is prepared to take it on, I am sure that it will improve even more. I am sure that we will see Mr Kaine back, possibly as Leader of the Opposition again.
Mr Lamont: Through the revolving door slowly.
MRS GRASSBY: Yes, that has happened many times up on the hill.
Mr De Domenico: What are you going to do, Mrs Grassby? Will you be back?
MRS GRASSBY: Do not worry; I will be back here too, I am quite sure.
Mr De Domenico: That is right; you got two out of 40 on the committee, did you not? You did really well!
MRS GRASSBY: Do not worry about it, Mr De Domenico. Just watch your own numbers and your own back.
Mr De Domenico: I always do, Mrs Grassby.
MRS GRASSBY: Very good. I am quite sure that Mr Berry will be back here, and I am sure that he is prepared to take on the portfolio.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Relevance, Mrs Grassby.
MRS GRASSBY: Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker; I appreciate your kind help in this. I think Mr Kaine will be back here as a very effective chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, asking all those very strong questions.
Mr Kaine: I do not know how I can be chairman of the Public Accounts Committee and be in the government as well. That is a bit of a problem.
MRS GRASSBY: Unfortunately, Mr Kaine, I do not think you are going to be in the government. I think you will be Leader of the Opposition again and you will be leading a very good Opposition, as you did before. I am sure that we will all be glad to see you back there.
Mr De Domenico: This is old home week.
MRS GRASSBY: Of course it is old home week.
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