Page 4526 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 26 November 2019
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Estimates 2019-2020—Select Committee—Report—Appropriation Bill 2019-2020 and Appropriation (Office of the Legislative Assembly) Bill 2019-2020—Recommendation 100—Strategies for tackling occupational violence in ACT public health facilities—Update—Ministerial statement, 26 November 2019.
I move:
That the Assembly take note of the paper.
Debate (on motion by Mr Wall) adjourned to the next sitting.
Health infrastructure planning
Ministerial statement
MS STEPHEN-SMITH (Kurrajong—Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Minister for Children, Youth and Families, Minister for Health and Minister for Urban Renewal) (10.48): I rise today in response to two resolutions in this place and three estimates committee recommendations about health infrastructure. The statement I am making today concerns the health infrastructure and planning aspects of the following: a resolution of the Legislative Assembly on 5 June 2019, which called on the government to “provide an update on territory-wide planning for health infrastructure by the last sitting day in 2019” and a resolution of the Legislative Assembly on 18 September 2019, which called on the government to report to the Legislative Assembly by the last sitting day of 2019 on “progress on the SPIRE project and its likely cost” and “progress in developing other significant health infrastructure programs, such as plans to upgrade infrastructure at Bruce.”
I also respond to the Legislative Assembly’s Select Committee on Estimates 2019-20 recommendations 82 and 87, which stated respectively:
The Committee recommends that the ACT Government, by the last sitting day of 2019, ensures the Minister of Health reports to the Legislative Assembly on plans to upgrade the Intensive Care Unit at the Canberra Hospital prior to the development on the Surgical Procedures Interventional Radiology and Emergency Centre.
The Committee recommends that the ACT Government, by the last sitting day of 2019, ensures the Minister for Health, table in the Legislative Assembly a detailed list of historical and projected milestones and their status for the Surgical Procedures Interventional Radiology and Emergency project.
Finally, I respond to the Legislative Assembly Select Committee on Estimates 2017-18 report recommendation 65, which stated:
The Committee recommends that the ACT Government provide a plan to the Legislative Assembly for how the Surgical Procedures Interventional Radiology and Emergency Centre will be built and open by 2023.
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