Page 3661 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 23 August 2011
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Mr Hargreaves: On the point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Mr Hargreaves.
Mr Hargreaves: Mr Speaker, supplementaries are supposed to relate in the main part to the substantive part of the original question. The original part of Mr Hanson’s question had to do with the emergency access to Calvary hospital around the birth of a child. That is the issue that Mr Corbell is addressing.
Mr Hanson: Mr Speaker, on the point of order, my preliminary question was quite clearly about the Gungahlin Drive extension and the construction of the Gungahlin Drive extension in 2001. I think it is entirely appropriate that my supplementary was about the GDE. I am asking the minister to come to the question of why they delivered the GDE late. That is quite consistent with the preliminary question.
MR SPEAKER: There is no point of order at this stage. I think the nature of the question is that the two issues are clearly interwoven. Minister, could you continue with your answer, thank you.
MR CORBELL: Thank you, Mr Speaker. The Ambulance Service and Calvary hospital management did not support a direct access from the Gungahlin Drive extension to—
Mr Hanson: I am sorry, Mr Speaker—
MR SPEAKER: Order! I have ruled on the point of order, Mr Hanson, so unless you have something new—
Mr Hanson: On the point of order, may I reread the supplementary question? It was not about emergency vehicles.
MR SPEAKER: No, you have reread it. I heard you.
MR CORBELL: Mr Speaker, Calvary hospital was concerned that the general public would use the emergency access road unless a controlled or secure access was available. The Ambulance Service was concerned about the management and maintenance requirement of any controlled or secure access arrangement. The Ambulance Service also considered the access arrangements of Haydon Drive provided more direct access to the emergency department at Calvary, given the internal road arrangements within the hospital site. On this basis, neither Calvary hospital nor the Ambulance Service supported an emergency access from the GDE and therefore the government concluded not to proceed with that option.
MR COE: A supplementary, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Mr Coe.
MR COE: Minister, why didn’t you listen to the advice given in August 2001—including advice that year that there should be a cut in the median strip for the
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