Page 2420 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 17 June 2009
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MS GALLAGHER: This is the decision that you have to grapple with yourselves: should the public own the public hospitals; and, if the public is going to invest $200 million in that asset, should the ACT community own it or should it be owned by the Catholic Church?
Mr Seselja: This is your business plan—you think it’s a good idea? That is your business plan.
MS GALLAGHER: No, that is not—
Mr Seselja: You said that’s the detail.
MS GALLAGHER: No, twist my words, Mr Seselja.
Mr Seselja: No, no. You said that’s the detail and you’ll make it simpler for us.
MS GALLAGHER: Twist my words.
Mrs Dunne: Yes, you said it was the detail: “Here it is, in simple terms.”
MS GALLAGHER: Here is the detail for the Liberals. These are the Liberal details—the details for a party that is without intellectual capacity. I am sorry I have had to dumb it down for you guys to get you to understand what we are trying to do here.
Mr Seselja: You don’t seem to have any more than that; you’re struggling.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MS GALLAGHER: We can’t get you to understand complex tasks or concepts, Mr Seselja. We can’t get you to do it. So here it is in a nutshell.
Mrs Dunne: You’re struggling to actually justify your position.
MS GALLAGHER: It is pretty easy.
Mr Seselja: This is the detail; this is the business plan.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Let’s hear Ms Gallagher.
MS GALLAGHER: It is pretty easy, I have to say, for you to get those great intellectual minds to grasp. It is pretty easy for you. We will wait and see if it actually translates into any understanding. I doubt it very much.
Mr Speaker, I will not stand here and allow the Liberals to run this line that we have been holding secret meetings around the future of Calvary. We have been in confidential discussions—
Mr Hanson: Oh, confidential!
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