Page 2421 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 17 June 2009
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Mrs Dunne: Confidential.
Mr Seselja: As opposed to secret.
MS GALLAGHER: There is a difference here because of the connotation that you were attaching to “secret” as though there is some conspiracy to withhold information from the ACT community. In the long term, if this sale proceeds, this community will be better off for it, Mr Speaker. It is a government’s job to lead, it is a government’s job to negotiate outcomes for the community and it is a government’s job to have a long-term view on health.
This is what this government have done with our plans on health. I note all the comments going up to the last election. Going up to the last election, the Liberals had a policy on their website, which I do not have on me just yet but I will no doubt find it, where they said they would release a long-term plan for health covering the next 20 years. And we never saw that. We never saw that work. It was probably started in Mrs Burke’s office and then went somewhere and was not released. We had Mr Seselja saying that they were funding intensive care beds at our hospitals—except they would only fund them when they were actually needed. They would not actually provide the funding for them. So your shameful record on health here, in comparison to the ACT government going out to the community with a long-term view on health—
Mr Seselja: So is that when you said you had all your plans on the table, Katy?
MS GALLAGHER: Exactly—a plan for the future, a plan which included detailed work on what is to happen on the Calvary site, including what is to happen on the Canberra Hospital site. We went out with all of that information, Mr Seselja.
Mr Seselja: Except for all the secret bits.
MS GALLAGHER: All of that information.
Mr Seselja: No, no.
Mrs Dunne: Except for the secret bit.
MS GALLAGHER: The important thing here—
Mr Seselja: You can’t say that you had all your plans on the table—
MS GALLAGHER: We had a plan—
Mr Seselja: again when you didn’t.
MS GALLAGHER: for health. It was a 10-year plan for health.
Mr Seselja: Say it again.
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