Page 2423 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 17 June 2009
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MS GALLAGHER: Do I have to dumb this down for you as well? You would like me, prior to any negotiations with the provider, to bring a business case to the Assembly for you to have a view about whether the negotiation process should start or not?
Mr Hanson: No, before you sign off on the deal, before we are asked to vote on it in the Assembly.
MS GALLAGHER: How ridiculous! So the Assembly now has to view business cases? Why don’t we do the whole budget like that? We will bring every business case here, we will find out whether Zed agrees or not: “Okay, yes, this holds up, you can now consider that as part of what you do as a government.” What a ridiculous line to be running here!
Mr Seselja: Why did you hide it before the election, Katy?
MS GALLAGHER: There is absolutely no attempt by this government to hide anything, and you can’t prove anywhere that there was any attempt by this government to hide anything. We were very clear with our plans around health, and those plans will continue regardless of whether this sale goes ahead or not. And at this point in time I do not know whether it will. I do not know whether those negotiations will be able to be completed to a point where the parties involved actually reach agreement. That is where the negotiation process is up to. At the right point, at the point where there is something to discuss, that matter will come back to the Assembly, and it is right that it should come back to the Assembly.
Mr Hanson: Isn’t that what I have asked for in my motion? Isn’t that what I have asked for?
Mr Coe: So you agree with what he is asking?
MS GALLAGHER: No, I do not agree with the motion.
Mr Seselja: Have you read the motion?
Mrs Dunne: You had better read it again.
MS GALLAGHER: I do not agree with the motion. I have read the motion, Mr Seselja, and unlike you, I actually understand simple concepts, and this motion is rather simple but it is extremely negative. As I said at the beginning, it is written in a way that makes the government unable to support it, and that is exactly why it was written in that way.
Mr Seselja: Is that like all those economic concepts you had—
Mr Hanson: Why can’t the government do this?
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, Mr Seselja! Ms Gallagher has the floor. You will get your turn.
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