Page 3319 - Week 11 - Thursday, 22 September 1994
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MR LAMONT: If you could keep quiet for long enough, maybe I would get around to answering it.
Mr Kaine: You make fun of a serious issue.
MR LAMONT: No, I do not make fun of it. But I will tell you what: I am starting to get sick of your interjections.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Mr Lamont, conclude your answer.
MR LAMONT: Mr Stevenson, I will in fact undertake to provide that research material for you, and anything else that I am able to find in that review of information, which will be provided by ACTEW.
Calvary Hospital - Paediatric Ward
MR STEFANIAK: Madam Speaker, I am absolutely sick of asking questions of this mob; so, my question actually is to the Leader of the Opposition and it relates to notice No. 8 on the notice paper. I refer Mrs Carnell, the Leader of the Opposition - and, after the polls we have had lately, quite possibly after February the next Chief Minister of this Territory - to the motion on the notice paper which calls on the Government to recognise the overwhelming community support for the establishment of a paediatric ward for non-acute patients at Calvary Hospital. I ask Mrs Carnell: Is this a motion which she feels needs to be debated as a matter of priority? If so, could Mrs Carnell advise the Assembly why she wishes to have it brought on for early debate?
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! That question is out of order.
Mr Moore: On a point of order, Madam Speaker: I think your confusion may come from the fact that Mr Stefaniak said "notice No. 8"; but I think he meant notice No. 8 under private members business, which of course Mrs Carnell has carriage of.
MADAM SPEAKER: It very rarely arises, but I will allow it.
MRS CARNELL: I think it is very rarely done; that is the problem. I thank Mr Stefaniak, who obviously cares deeply about Belconnen, for his very perceptive question. I believe that the question of whether a paediatrics unit for non-acute patients should be established at Calvary Hospital is a very important one because of the chronic lack of facilities there at the moment.
MADAM SPEAKER: You are not allowed to anticipate debate, Mrs Carnell. That is the problem. Do not anticipate debate.
MRS CARNELL: Absolutely. This definitely is a matter which should be debated without delay and, Madam Speaker, I certainly will not be debating the motion today. I will be very happy to do it in the future, but I will not be willing to do it today.
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