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have not been able to knock them because they are set out there very carefully", or, "No, what you have missed in those calculations is this and this". At this stage the Minister has not responded effectively to the calculations set out at paragraph 4.190 of the committee's report.
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General and Minister for Health) (4.39): We have done so in the Estimates Committee response. To start with, the glaring error is that you are basing it on the average maternity stay of 4.3 days. These could well be day procedures. If every one of the 1,400 maternity cases were replaced with a hip replacement it would not be $4m extra; it would be $14m extra. If it were averaged it may be this, but if it were day procedures it would be less. What we said we are doing is translating the $1.1m back in.
Mrs Carnell: Averages are averages.
MR CONNOLLY: You are never going to be satisfied. Everyone is giggling at this proposition. Let me say this: The proof of the pudding will be in the eating. I confidently look forward to reporting to you as Health Minister at next year's Estimates Committee and showing you how it worked out.
Proposed expenditure agreed to.
Advance to the Minister Administering the Audit Act 1989
Proposed expenditure - Division 270 - Treasurer's Advance, $12m - agreed to.
Remainder of Bill, by leave, taken as a whole, and agreed to.
Bill agreed to.
ESTIMATES 1994-95 - SELECT COMMITTEE
Report on the Appropriation Bill 1994-95
Debate resumed from 23 August 1994, on motion by Ms Szuty:
That the report be noted.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
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