Page 1668 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 13 May 2015

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MADAM SPEAKER: The question is that Mr Rattenbury’s amendment to Mr Corbell’s proposed amendment be agreed to.

Mr Rattenbury’s amendment agreed to.

Question put:

That Mr Corbell’s amendment, as amended, be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 8		Noes 7
Ms Berry	Ms Fitzharris	Mr Coe	Ms Lawder
Dr Bourke	Mr Gentleman	Mr Doszpot	Mr Smyth
Ms Burch	Ms Porter	Mrs Dunne	Mr Wall
Mr Corbell	Mr Rattenbury	Mr Hanson

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

MADAM SPEAKER: The question is that the motion, as amended, be agreed to.

MR HANSON (Molonglo—Leader of the Opposition) (10.56): Madam Speaker, I will not belabour the point, but I will point out the glaring errors in Mr Corbell’s argument. In his amendment, at paragraph (d), he refers to a question that I asked, and it is very good of him to do so. He says in his motion that the hospital will take up to 200 beds and there will be capacity for 166 overnight beds in 2017-18. That stems from questions I asked in an annual reports hearing. Let me go to that. I was asking questions in terms of the beds, and we were talking about 200 beds. Mr Cary-Ides, who ran the infrastructure program and who was sitting next to Ms Gallagher at the time, said:

We should note, though, that those figures would reflect current and past demand. We are building up a facility that can take up to 200 beds …

Pretty categorical, was it not?

… it is very much a facility that is built for the future as well as for the current demand.

That goes to the points we made about the jail and so on. Pretty unambiguous, I would have thought. A further answer to a question on notice came back from Ms Gallagher—it was signed by Ms Gallagher—which said the government was going to build a facility that can take up to 200 beds. She said there would be capacity for 166 overnight beds in the year it opened. It is going to have capacity for 200, and in the first year it opens they are going to have 166 overnight beds. That is pretty clear, is it not?

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