Page 4360 - Week 12 - Thursday, 24 October 2019
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MS LAWDER: I do have a supplementary. Minster, how many streets in the vicinity of SPIRE 2 would have to be locked down to manage a mass casualty incident? Do you understand the question?
MADAM SPEAKER: Ms Lawder, you just ask a question; there is no need to add a disrespectful comment.
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I thank Ms Lawder for the much clearer question that she was able to ask in her supplementary.
Opposition members interjecting—
Mrs Dunne: Well, she didn’t understand the previous one.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mrs Dunne, you are named. I warned you. I have brought it to your attention again. You are named. Your interjections and the level of disrespect from across the floor: you are named.
Motion (by Mr Gentleman) agreed to:
That Mrs Dunne be suspended from the service of the Assembly.
Mrs Dunne was suspended at 3.02 pm for three sitting hours in accordance with standing order 204, and she accordingly withdrew from the chamber.
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: As Ms Lawder would be aware, emergency planning is, again, an ongoing and continuous process. Until we have made final decisions in relation to the detailed design and context of the SPIRE facility—and I mentioned earlier that we recognise that access to the emergency department both for emergency vehicles but particularly for people arriving under their own steam will be a matter for further consideration; under even the current proposed design and access routes there are multiple access routes to the site of the new SPIRE project—that emergency planning will take place, as is always the case, on an ongoing basis and obviously it will depend—(Time expired.)
MR HANSON: Minister, why have you and your colleagues been laughing and dismissing the legitimate concerns of Garran residents, particularly those of the Garran school?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I have not. I reject the assertion that I or my colleagues have been laughing at the concerns of Garran residents. Again, I have tabled my letter to Garran residents. We do occasionally laugh at the antics of those opposite. I understand, Madam Speaker, that you would probably prefer it if we kept a straight face in relation to these matters.
I take very seriously the concerns of the neighbours of Canberra Hospital and Garran Primary School. I have written to them outlining where this project is up to, providing some further information around the traffic modelling that will be further undertaken
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