Page 3667 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 20 October 1993
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Again I assure the Assembly that during this period the services to those needing urgent or emergency care will not be affected. That puts the lie to the suggestion by Mrs Carnell that the hospital was going to close, because it is not going to close. The accident and emergency departments at both hospitals will continue to operate on a 24-hours-per-day basis. Mr Humphries, we have been funded for 50,500 patients.
Mr Moore: The same as last year.
MR BERRY: The same as last year, and we will provide those services under our more efficient bed management strategy. Of course, what you did fail to mention was the Easter closures which happened the year before.
MR HUMPHRIES: I ask a supplementary question, Madam Speaker. I return to my question. How much are you going to save by these measures?
MR BERRY: I repeat that we have been funded to provide services for 50,500 people, and the bed management strategy is designed about providing services to that number of admissions throughout the hospital system, so we will be providing our services more efficiently than last year.
Ms Follett: I ask that further questions be placed on the notice paper, Madam Speaker.
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MRS CARNELL: I seek leave, Madam Speaker, to table the letter from Dr Bernard Hughson that I referred to in my question.
Leave granted.
MR DE DOMENICO (3.18): Madam Speaker, I seek leave to table the two documents that I referred to in asking a question of the Chief Minister this afternoon.
MADAM SPEAKER: You have already been denied leave on that.
MR DE DOMENICO: I move:
That so much of standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent Mr De Domenico from tabling two documents he referred to when asking a question of the Chief Minister this afternoon.
This afternoon I asked the Chief Minister about Mr Wright and a cheque that bounced, and I sought leave to produce evidence of that fact to the Chief Minister. I cannot see why the Government or anybody else would refuse leave to table documents referred to in a question. That is the reason why I have had to take this stand. I do not know what the Government is frightened about, but there are the documents and they are the reason why I am taking this action.
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