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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 1 Hansard (17 February) . . Page.. 251 ..

MR STANHOPE (continuing):

There has been no serious attempt by Mr Moore to respond to my invitation to tell us how he proposes to deal with the blow-out. There has been no attempt to explain to us the basis on which we have arrived at this predicted $10m blow-out. None of us here is any the wiser about the whys or the wherefores of the blow-out. None of us is any the wiser as a result of the debate today. We asked for that information. None of us is any the wiser about what has happened to the $16.5m. Jokingly, I think, I expressed the view that I wonder whether the cash received by the ACT Government for the express purpose of dealing with the elective waiting lists had gone to fill some other hole somewhere or had actually been applied in the interim to the short-term money market.

Mr Moore: You think it should or shouldn't?

MR STANHOPE: We received no response.

Mr Moore: Do you think it should or shouldn't?

MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order!

Mr Moore: Should it be in the short-term money market or not?

MR STANHOPE: I rest my case, Mr Deputy Speaker. I rest my case.

MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Moore, order!

Mr Moore: You are pathetic, Jon Stanhope. You are pathetic.

MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Moore, order!

Mr Moore: You should have listened.

MR STANHOPE: We have gone from constant interjections to personal abuse now from Mr Moore. We have given up on the constant interjections; we are now reduced to personal abuse.

MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Proceed.

MR STANHOPE: I would blush too, Mr Moore. I would blush too, Mr Moore, if I were you.

Ms Carnell: I think he just cannot believe how much you missed of his speech. I heard it all.

MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Stanhope, carry on with your speech.

MR STANHOPE: The invitation I gave was an invitation to address the real issues. All we heard was the Chief Minister parrot a list of so-called achievements in her time as Minister for Health. We have had no attempt repeated by Mr Humphries. We now await with great interest. I am sure these few words will no doubt have spurred Mr Moore into

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