Page 3352 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 14 November 2007
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Mrs Burke: Six years.
MS GALLAGHER: The cases which have been recently referred, Mrs Burke—not six years.
Mrs Burke: Six years. They go back six years.
MS GALLAGHER: Not six years.
Mrs Burke: Check your information.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mrs Burke!
MS GALLAGHER: I have checked the information. Not six years. The cases that have been referred most recently are being reviewed through the clinical review process. What we have here is an attack on one group of doctors within our hospital—a group of doctors which, I should say—
Mr Seselja: The question was about research.
Mrs Burke: Can you bring her back to the subject matter, Mr Speaker.
MS GALLAGHER: Which, I should say, work very hard for this community—who work a one in two roster, who are on call one night out of every two, who cannot leave the ACT—
Mrs Burke: Point of order, Mr Speaker. This really is not answering the question before the minister. I have asked about what research.
Ms Porter: It wasn’t your question.
Mrs Burke: If the minister cannot answer the question, she can take it on notice.
Ms Porter: It wasn’t your question.
Mrs Burke: I have asked a point of order.
MR SPEAKER: Mrs Burke, Mr Seselja asked the question.
Mrs Burke: So? I have taken a point of order.
MR SPEAKER: It was in relation to a particular type of surgery. The minister has five minutes to respond to the question and can touch on matters related to that particular type of surgery.
Mrs Burke: Mr Speaker, with your indulgence, it was about complication rates, not surgery per se—and about the research surrounding complication rates.
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