Page 3223 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 22 August 2012
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and that same year that individual started fabricating data at the Canberra Hospital on a massive scale, the effect of which made you look better, when the Auditor-General has found that this is a political hot potato and the individual concerned said it was a political imperative, don’t you think for a moment, Mr Assistant Speaker, that to then say that you just had a professional relationship and say that you put on the table everything that there was to know about this matter, when that piece of information was absent from both the Auditor-General’s inquiry and the inquiries that were held through the estimates process and PAC and through to the community, that shows a gross lack of honesty and a gross lack of judgement? She should have been up-front. She should have said what happened.
It leaves questions. People have asked Katy Gallagher, “Did you have conversations about the hospital while you were on holiday in the south of France?”
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Mr Hargreaves): Excuse me, Mr Hanson, could you come to the subject a little more directly, please?
MR HANSON: This relates to the doctoring and the fabrication of emergency department data, which is the subject of the PAC report, and it goes to the issue of why this occurred, Mr Assistant Speaker.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Sure, Mr Hanson, but you did say in your speech “departing from the subject”, and then you went on to that. Now I am asking you please to come back to it.
MR HANSON: The issue at hand is: was this issue discussed in the south of France? Katy Gallagher’s response is “I can’t remember”. That is just not credible. You spend a month in the south of France with an individual that works in the hospital in a senior role, and you cannot remember if you talked about the hospital or not, again—
Mr Barr: Can you say the south of France one more time? And where was it again, Jeremy?
MR HANSON: Andrew Barr wants me to repeat it. He wants me to repeat that Katy Gallagher was in the south of France. He has asked me to say again for the Hansard—
Mr Barr interjecting—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Order, minister, please!
MR HANSON: He has requested me to say that, and I can only guess his motive. We know that Andrew Barr has some—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: To the report, please, Mr Hanson. To the report, please.
MR HANSON: To the report, indeed.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Thank you.
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