Page 2872 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 14 August 2019
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Ms Stephen-Smith: I handed it to the Clerk as soon as I walked into the chamber, Mrs Dunne.
MRS DUNNE: This motion has been on the notice paper since Monday. In light of the fact that this was the first item on the agenda after the presentation of a bill, if the minister had wanted to have a meaningful discussion about this, she might have sent my office a copy of the amendment. You would not break any rules by doing so. It is a pattern of this government all the time—
Members interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Members!
MRS DUNNE: especially in relation to health. I cannot recall a time, Madam Speaker, when I have moved a motion in this place in relation to health in the last 2½ years that, after I stood in this place and started to speak, the health minister has not circulated a motion. This is typical of the place. The government has taken everything out of my motion except the first paragraph. It has deleted everything and made it a seven-paragraph motion. This minister, like her predecessor, could not have the courtesy to give the opposition a heads up before we started the debate. This is typical of what I was speaking about in the motion.
This is a government who does not care, who does not want to talk about this issue. They have been dragged kicking and screaming on every occasion. The tone that this minister has taken here today is a manifestation of that. As Ms Lawder and Mrs Jones have noted, hydrotherapy is usually conducted at 34 to 36 degrees. I would like to point out to people that it is considerably less than that in the chamber here today, if someone would like to do something about that.
MADAM SPEAKER: Just on that, Mrs Dunne, I think we are all feeling the cold. We are looking at it.
Ms Stephen-Smith interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Minister!
Mrs Jones interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Mrs Jones, please! Mrs Dunne has the floor.
MRS DUNNE: It points out a whole lot about the tone of this that somehow the minister is trying to characterise everything the Liberal opposition says about hydrotherapy as invalid because we are not, by her description, experts. Actually, Madam Speaker, we are experts because we talk to the users. We talk to the users. We know what they want. We know what they need.
Ms Stephen-Smith interjecting—
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