Page 1266 - Week 04 - Thursday, 21 March 2013
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MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, take your seat. I am happy for a wide-ranging discussion in MPIs but the interjections are overcoming the Chief Minister’s discussion and if it happens again I will warn you.
Mr Hanson: On your ruling, Mr Assistant Speaker, I am responding because the Chief Minister is standing there and addressing me directly and making accusations at me directly instead of adhering to the standing orders and you are blatantly ignoring that.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Hanson. Chief Minister.
MS GALLAGHER: Thank you, Mr Assistant Speaker. In the last week 346 patients have presented for assessment and treatment at the walk-in-centre. Over 17,000 in the last year have been treated at the walk-in-centre. In the last week 346 people, 52 new patients commencing their cancer treatment, 38 receiving radiotherapy and 14 receiving chemotherapy—that is the amount of people who have had their lives changed in the last week with a cancer diagnosis. And that system, which you say they can only be disappointed in, is where they are getting their care from and that is where they have excellent care.
Mr Hanson: Mr Assistant Speaker—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Hanson.
Mr Hanson: on a point of order, the Chief Minister again is standing there addressing me directly while you are reading your magazine. Could I ask that you call the minister to account and ask that she address her comments through you.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Stop the clock, Clerk. Thank you, Mr Hanson. I will make two comments. Firstly, the work that I do here in the chair I do not believe should be commented on by you. I will ask the Chief Minister to refer her comments through the chair.
MS GALLAGHER: Thank you, Mr Assistant Speaker. With respect to the system that the Leader of the Opposition claims people in Canberra can only be disappointed in, the point I am making is that people, every minute of every day, are accessing high-quality services in that hospital and across the health system. For him, as a community leader, to come into this place and say that it is a system that people can only be disappointed in is a disgrace.
I received a letter from a couple whose baby recently spent time in the neonatal intensive care unit. I would like to put that on the record:
I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the outstanding work conducted on a daily basis by your staff at the Canberra Hospital, especially in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. On Friday the 22nd February 2013, my wife and I were transferred from a NSW Hospital to Canberra Hospital following complications with our pregnancy. The following night our son was born, 8 weeks premature and weighing only 970 grams.
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