Page 2089 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 21 June 2011
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MS GALLAGHER: My apologies, Mr Speaker. My apologies, Ms Hunter, who was not even listening to me, I do not think.
Mr Smyth: That’s amazing.
Mr Hanson: Half her luck.
MR SPEAKER: Order, members! The question, thank you, Chief Minister.
MS GALLAGHER: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I was merely commenting that I do not think it has been since 2008 that the Chief Minister has received quite the attention that I am receiving. The Deputy Chief Minister, of course, in previous sittings, was used to this kind of attention.
Mr Hanson: Maybe we guessed you were going to be Chief Minister.
MR SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms Gallagher, the question.
MS GALLAGHER: The opposition have moved from the Deputy Chief Minister to the Chief Minister.
Mr Hanson: And Andrew is feeling let down. But he is right behind you.
MS GALLAGHER: Honestly, I don’t know what to do with myself if I don’t get all the questions.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Chief Minister, the question.
MS GALLAGHER: Thank you, Mr Speaker. The question was around elective surgery and access to elective surgery. Could I say that this year the government, through the public hospital system and with about 140 procedures delivered through the private hospital system, will deliver 10,700 procedures to the people of the ACT and surrounding New South Wales. That is about 4,000 more operations a year than the Liberal Party delivered when they were last in government. We had the lowest waiting lists.
Mr Hanson: What were the waiting times?
MS GALLAGHER: We do not know what the waiting times were in 2001 because you did not report it. You did not report your long wait patients. You did not report your long wait list. You reported your median wait times.
Mr Seselja: It was 40 days.
Mr Hanson: It went from 40 days to 70 days.
MR SPEAKER: Order, members!
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