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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 3 Hansard (28 March) . . Page.. 765 ..

MR BERRY (continuing):

Mrs Carnell said again:

... and, I state again, we have saved over $2m ... We will end up with savings ... and I again state that that means that there will be a $2m saving ...

And on we go. She said:

I am very happy to table the document from the previous Government's submission, which shows total savings of just over $1m.

She mentioned it here again today. She said:

So, it appears that we have doubled the savings ...

Ms Follett: "We have"; is that what she said?

MR BERRY: "... we have doubled the savings". On 2 May 1995 she said:

What we have managed to do in seven weeks is reach a situation where we have $2m worth of savings - double what even Mr Berry asked for.

She said:

We have had not one patient flown to Sydney. ... What we have is $2m worth of savings ...

Mrs Carnell: How is that recklessly misleading the Assembly?

MR BERRY: Because it is not true; it is a lie.

MR SPEAKER: Order!

MR BERRY: It is a lie. That is how it is recklessly misleading the Assembly, Mrs Carnell. If you have not worked that out by now, I am afraid that we have a long way to go, and I expect that you will not be voting for this motion on that score. Here we go again:

I would be very happy for any group in the ACT to accept a wage package with a saving of $2m.

We go on again:

What we have now is a situation where we have $2m in savings in an area that has traditionally been very difficult ...

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