Page 4078 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 24 November 1993
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Mr De Domenico: Blame the doctors. You cannot for the last three months, can you?
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
MR BERRY: It is difficult to predict what the budget outcome will be and what the cost will be at this stage because - - -
Mr Humphries: We can predict it; it is going to blow out.
Mr Kaine: Try an $8m blow-out by the end of the year. Write it on your pad now.
MR BERRY: You can guess all you like; but one thing, Mr Kaine, you can be assured of - in contrast - - -
Mr Kaine: That you will have a budget blow-out. That is what we can be assured of.
MR BERRY: No, no; in contrast - you are not going to like this - - -
Mr Kaine: And the waiting lists will get longer.
MR BERRY: You are not going to like this. Stick the tongue out and take the medicine.
Mr Kaine: The waiting lists will get longer and you will have a bigger blow-out.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
MR BERRY: In contrast to what it was like when you had control of these matters, as things occur you will be informed, and so will the community. When we asked you, you did not even know what was going on.
Mr Humphries: Last thing on a Friday night.
Mr Kaine: Only because this Assembly obligated you to do so. Until we did, you would not tell us anything.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
Mr De Domenico: You should resign.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Mr De Domenico, it is your question. Let us have some order.
MR BERRY: From time to time, as the budget position changes, whether affected by the VMOs strike or not, you will be informed about it.
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