Page 3650 - Week 08 - Thursday, 19 August 2010
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MS GALLAGHER: Thank you, Mr Speaker. In relation to staff parking, I think for morning staff the car parking arrangements are going very well.
Mr Hanson: You reckon?
MS GALLAGHER: They have access to good amounts of car parking, and the evening staff as well. The issues—
Mr Hanson: Have you tried? Have you spoken to the staff?
MR SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, you will have a chance in a moment.
MS GALLAGHER: The issues with where pressure has come on the hospital has been for those people working unusual shift arrangements. We have been working individually with those people—
Mr Coe: That happens in hospitals.
Mr Hanson: Nurses never do that, do they?
MR SPEAKER: Members, please!
MS GALLAGHER: Mr Speaker, you know, honestly, you try to—
MR SPEAKER: Ms Gallagher, just answer the question.
MS GALLAGHER: You come to question time and you just get the constant interjections from the arrogance of Mr Hanson. It is unacceptable, the behaviour of the opposition in question time. The staff—
Mr Hanson: I’d be embarrassed about it too, Katy.
MS GALLAGHER: Every single time I open my mouth, they interject. Considering I am getting every question from the opposition, I think it is pretty—well, I will leave it there. We will see if you can manage until the end of question time by allowing me to finish answering the questions you ask me. Pay me the courtesy to allow me to do that.
The pressure for staff car parking—I have spent a number of hours walking the car parks with staff—has been for those staff that start after 8 o’clock in the morning. There are not large numbers that start after 8 o’clock; most nurses are on site by 7 am. So it is those who work unusual shift arrangements, Mr Coe, those who start after 8 and work shorter days that finish up around 2. That is where the pressure has come. We have worked with those staff to look at solutions.
The other area is for those nurses who might work a 12-hour shift—they start at lunch time and they finish at 1.30 in the morning. What did we do? We responded, and our arrangements were flexible enough to extend the shuttle bus services and to extend the
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