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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 1 Hansard (17 February) . . Page.. 311 ..

MR MOORE (continuing):

There is also a message here for the AHA. I know there is a member of that organisation with us today. When they came to lobby me - I imagine it was the same when they lobbied other members - they said that there is more than one way to deal with a particular issue. One of the ways they prefer to deal with this issue is to make sure that their cleaners have a sharps container attached to their cleaning equipment - the tongs, the glove - and the appropriate training. If you are really keen to see that you do not have to manage sharp containers in the way proposed in the manual about to be modified, then you carry through with the way you lobby members. You make sure that the matter is dealt with in the way that you prefer to deal with it. If that is successful, and we see it is successful, then I imagine the matter will not come back to the house. But if it is quite clear to us that there are still sharps around in venues where the public attends, then it is quite clear that the matter, with the evidence, will come back to the house. My guess is that this would include the clubs as well.

It seems to me that we have the opportunity here to take time to look at what we have done, work out where we could have done it better and ensure that we do that. I know that all members are interested in stopping the spread of, particularly, HIV and hepatitis C. We will try to find the best way to do that. As Mr Stanhope says, it has to be based on evidence. We will make sure that we bring that evidence when we bring this policy back to the chamber.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Motion (by Mr Moore ) agreed to:

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