Page 1945 - Week 07 - Thursday, 13 August 2020
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members here for supporting the bill and thank the officials who worked on the bill and the scrutiny committee for its consideration. I commend the bill to the Assembly.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Detail stage
Bill, by leave, taken as a whole.
MRS KIKKERT (Ginninderra) (11.56): I seek leave to move an amendment to this bill that has not been considered by the scrutiny committee.
Leave granted.
MRS KIKKERT: I move amendment No 1 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 2027]. I table a supplementary explanatory statement to the amendment.
MS LE COUTEUR (Murrumbidgee) (11.56): The Greens are supporting Mrs Kikkert’s amendment. Adoption is really important, and that is why we support the amendment to review the impacts of this legislation after two years. We do not want any unintended consequences, because the consequences could or would be life changing for the people involved. Reviewing the legislation after two years seems to be entirely sensible.
Amendment agreed to.
Bill, as a whole, as amended, agreed to.
Bill, as amended, agreed to.
Sitting suspended from 11.58 am to 2 pm.
Questions without notice
Hospitals—acute care beds
MR COE: I have a question for the Minister for Health. In February 2011, the then health minister planned to add 400 beds over a decade to meet an anticipated 50 per cent increase in admissions. Analysis performed by Mr Stanhope shows that the ACT had 132 fewer beds than what was needed as at the end of 2018-19. Minister, what is the current shortfall of acute care beds in the territory?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I thank the Leader of the Opposition for his question and just correct one point: Mr Stanhope’s analysis only appears to have gone to 2017-18, not 2018-19, when he is talking about the difference between what was projected and the AIHW data for that particular year.
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