Page 1084 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 30 March 2011
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The amendment seeks to provide some balance to what Mr Hanson’s motion seeks to do. I note that in Mr Hanson’s motion he has accused me of not talking about the negatives in the report. I notice that in his motion he does not talk about one positive. Not one positive appears in your motion, Mr Hanson; so what you are accusing me of doing, you are doing exactly the same thing.
Mr Hanson: No, I am not. You heard my speech. You heard my speech.
MS GALLAGHER: Exactly. You have—
Mr Hanson: You heard my speech.
MS GALLAGHER: Indeed, in your motion I think you say that there were more areas where the indicators deteriorated than improved. That is not true either. More than half of the indicators in that report showed improvement. In access to care, those statements are correct. More people were seen at the emergency department, more people had elective surgery, more people got access to radiation therapy services. All of that is true in this report.
What this report shows is that demand continues to grow and more people are being seen. The median waiting time is not a measure of access to care. That median waiting time is going to get worse. It is going to get worse and worse as more people get access to their surgery. That is what Mr Hanson just fails to understand in terms of my comments around access.
Mr Hanson: You got caught.
MS GALLAGHER: More people than ever before in this reporting period, more people than ever before—
Mr Hanson: And the list is longer than ever before.
MS GALLAGHER: Madam Assistant Speaker, Mr Hanson is constantly interjecting “sprung, wrong, got you” in the aggressive way that he continues—
Mr Hanson: Aggressive? I hardly think so, Madam Assistant Speaker.
MS GALLAGHER: Yes, Mr Hanson, you do not need to shout to be aggressive and I can and I am trying to respond to the motion at hand, not assisted by his usual constant, nasty approach across the chamber, Madam Assistant Speaker—
Mr Hanson: Tell the truth then, Katy.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, please, this is not—
MS GALLAGHER: Mr Hanson hopes that people do not hear him behaving in this way and he needs to be called on his behaviour. He needs to be called on his behaviour which is completely unacceptable in this chamber.
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