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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 3 Hansard (9 April) . . Page.. 779 ..

MRS CARNELL: I think I answered that question yesterday. We will go back to who was consulted with regard to students and to parents. As I said in the very long list of - - -

Mr Berry: How many parents did you write to? Tell us that. That is what we want to know.

MR SPEAKER: Order! Ms Tucker has asked the question, Mr Berry, not you.

Mr Berry: Or was it only an accident that a parent got it?

MR SPEAKER: There will be an accident here in a moment and you will be out. Continue, Mrs Carnell.

MRS CARNELL: I made it clear that we wrote to all school principals, with a letter for them to circulate to staff and to the school boards. My last understanding of school boards was that they had parents on them. We also wrote to the ACT Council of Parents and Citizens Associations. Again, my understanding of the body that actually represents the parents within the - - -

Ms Tucker: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. My question was: Can you please justify the introduction of user pays to preventive dental health care? I asked for the rationale behind the user - - -

Mr Humphries: She did it yesterday.

Ms Tucker: No; she refused to answer it yesterday.

Mr Humphries: She answered that question yesterday.

Ms Tucker: No; she did not. I asked for a cost-benefit analysis yesterday.

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, what has that to do with the first question?

MR SPEAKER: I have to uphold the point that you have raised, Chief Minister. It is a different question. If you wish to answer it, you may do so; but I thought you did answer it yesterday. I was under the impression that yesterday the Minister went into some detail about the cut in funding from the Commonwealth.

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, I am happy to go through it all again. I was just trying to save the Assembly some time.

Ms Tucker: Mr Speaker, I want to respond to what you have just said. You said that yesterday I asked for a cost-benefit analysis of Commonwealth funding. I never asked that question yesterday, and it is not what I am asking today.

MR SPEAKER: You have asked a separate question today, as a supplementary question. It is up to the Minister for Health whether she chooses to answer that or not.

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