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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2001 Week 8 Hansard (8 August) . . Page.. 2550 ..

MR STANHOPE (continuing):

The minister has just promised to do this for our midwives. The minister has promised that, in recognition of the continuing difficulties faced by doctors working in Canberra's public hospitals concerning medical indemnity, the ACT government has developed a proposal to use the combined buying power of the government and these doctors to negotiate a better solution. The minister is now going to use the buying power of the government to ensure that this is applied to midwives as well.

Mr Moore: I have done it already.

MR STANHOPE: I am putting on the record what you have just promised to do. You have just promised to use the combined buying power of the government and the midwives to negotiate a better solution which provides for midwives premium security and coverage which shifts some of the future risks of escalating costs of patient treatment onto the government and which will involve midwives in the tender selection process to get the best private practice insurance product to meet their needs. That is the promise the minister has just made to midwives. We will now go through the details.

Mr Moore: No, it is not.

MR STANHOPE: You have just said that you will do for the midwives exactly what you did for the doctors. Let us look at Hansard and what you said you would do. You said that you would do for midwives what you did for doctors. We all heard you just say that. Let us look at what you propose to do.

Mr Moore: Do not misrepresent me again. I will stand up and make it clear to you. I said that I have already taken action on it.

MR STANHOPE: The minister has taken action. He is not prepared to do for midwives what he did for doctors.

Mr Moore: You give me the shits.

MR STANHOPE: Mr Speaker, the minister's foul language needs to be addressed. I will not repeat what the minister just said, but I think you need to keep an ear on Mr Moore's foul language in this place.

MR SPEAKER: I did not hear it.

MR STANHOPE: I did, Mr Speaker. Can I ask you to keep an ear on Mr Moore's foul language across the chamber.

MR SPEAKER: If Mr Moore did use that, I shall ask him to withdraw when he comes back. I am not arguing about your words, Mr Stanhope, believe me.

MR STANHOPE: I do not want to edify what he said, but I think you need to keep an ear on his language across the chamber.

MR SPEAKER: Mr Moore, did you use foul language before you left the chamber? If so, please withdraw.

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