Page 4811 - Week 15 - Thursday, 8 December 1994
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MR WOOD: Mr De Domenico, you are going to be very unhappy because this is the last question time. You will not be able to prattle on quite as much as formerly. I hope that the television cameras and the sound people can edit you a little better than we have been able to achieve here. Madam Speaker, my quick reading of that report suggests that the issue has been raised for consideration. I might indicate that it has been part of my examination over a period. There are pros and cons. We will be examining the position most carefully. I will be providing a full response to all the recommendations of that report very early in the next parliament.
MR KAINE: I have a supplementary question, Madam Speaker. We are still not clear on whether the Minister supports that proposal or not. Minister, can you tell me whether you also support what is widely known and supported within your department, and that is that this move has the enthusiastic backing of Mr Lamont, who wants to take over your portfolio responsibility?
MR WOOD: I have not read that into the report, or anything else, Mr Kaine.
Ms Follett: I ask that further questions be placed on the notice paper, Madam Speaker.
PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS
MRS CARNELL (Leader of the Opposition): Madam Speaker, I seek leave to make a personal explanation, pursuant to standing order 46.
Members interjected.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Luckily for you, Mrs Carnell, I am the one who gives leave, and I will give you leave. Please proceed.
MRS CARNELL: Madam Speaker, in question time, the Minister for Health indicated that I or some other member of the Opposition had made public the name of a particular patient who had died in an incident at Woden Valley Hospital.
Mrs Grassby: No; only you.
Mr Berry: You disgraced this Assembly.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
MRS CARNELL: We have to be quiet, but they do not.
MADAM SPEAKER: I wish you did, Mrs Carnell. Mr Berry and Mrs Grassby, please come to order.
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