❓ Opposition MP Kirkup questions the Premier on the lack of progress on the Joondalup Health Campus expansion and requests job creation figures for medihotels. The Premier deflects, highlighting federal funding secured, other health projects statewide, and criticising the previous government's handling of Perth Children's Hospital.
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JOONDALUP HEALTH CAMPUS
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1103. Mr Z.R.F. KIRKUP to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question.
Given that the government has done nothing substantive on expanding the
Joondalup Health Campus, can the Premier at least outline to the house how many
jobs have been created at the Joondalup medihotel project, and other medihotels
around the state?
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1103. Mr Z.R.F. KIRKUP to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question.
Given that the government has done nothing substantive on expanding the
Joondalup Health Campus, can the Premier at least outline to the house how many
jobs have been created at the Joondalup medihotel project, and other medihotels
around the state?
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As
I have just outlined to the house, we secured a large amount of federal
funding. The state will make a contribution, and further announcements
will be made about that. Some improvements will be made to Joondalup hospital,
and I am sure the people of the northern suburbs will be very happy with them,
as they are with health facilities around Western Australia, where we are
undertaking significant work. For instance, we expect work on the new Newman hospital to get underway shortly. There are a range
of other projects, including the linear accelerator cancer t reatment
facility in your own community, Mr Speaker. There is a whole range of projects
around Western Australia that we are doing in the health portfolio. Obviously,
we have sought to secure as much commonwealth funding as we possibly can.
It is interesting that the member
raised the matter of health. When we came to office, one of the things we had
to do was resolve the issues surrounding Perth Children's Hospital,
which was a significant project that had sat there empty for years, because the
last government could not resolve getting that hospital open. We moved with
extraordinary speed to take back control of the hospital, and resolve the
issues of lead in the water caused by the thermostatic mixing valves, as found
by the chief —
Dr M.D. Nahan interjected.
Mr M. McGOWAN : The member for
Riverton is laughing about it. The member for Riverton sat there as the most
useless Treasurer this state has ever seen, with the highest debt and the
biggest deficits this state has ever seen, presiding over the Perth Children's
Hospital, with the lead in the water caused by the thermostatic mixing valves,
as confirmed by the Chief Health Officer.
Mr W.R. Marmion interjected.
Mr M. McGOWAN : So you are on
John Holland's side too, are you? Members opposite put in all those
variations to the contract when they were in government, which caused John
Holland to take legal action against the government. We are defending that on
the basis of the lead in the water, as found by the Chief Health Officer. We
had to resolve that and now the opposition is taking John Holland's
side. What sort of people are you to do that to Western Australia? Yesterday
they were taking the side of South Australian industry against Western Australian
industry for submarine contracts, and today they are taking the side of John
Holland, a multinational corporation, against the taxpayers of Western Australia.
The Liberal Party in this state is, quite frankly, disgusting.
I have just outlined to the house, we secured a large amount of federal
funding. The state will make a contribution, and further announcements
will be made about that. Some improvements will be made to Joondalup hospital,
and I am sure the people of the northern suburbs will be very happy with them,
as they are with health facilities around Western Australia, where we are
undertaking significant work. For instance, we expect work on the new Newman hospital to get underway shortly. There are a range
of other projects, including the linear accelerator cancer t reatment
facility in your own community, Mr Speaker. There is a whole range of projects
around Western Australia that we are doing in the health portfolio. Obviously,
we have sought to secure as much commonwealth funding as we possibly can.
It is interesting that the member
raised the matter of health. When we came to office, one of the things we had
to do was resolve the issues surrounding Perth Children's Hospital,
which was a significant project that had sat there empty for years, because the
last government could not resolve getting that hospital open. We moved with
extraordinary speed to take back control of the hospital, and resolve the
issues of lead in the water caused by the thermostatic mixing valves, as found
by the chief —
Dr M.D. Nahan interjected.
Mr M. McGOWAN : The member for
Riverton is laughing about it. The member for Riverton sat there as the most
useless Treasurer this state has ever seen, with the highest debt and the
biggest deficits this state has ever seen, presiding over the Perth Children's
Hospital, with the lead in the water caused by the thermostatic mixing valves,
as confirmed by the Chief Health Officer.
Mr W.R. Marmion interjected.
Mr M. McGOWAN : So you are on
John Holland's side too, are you? Members opposite put in all those
variations to the contract when they were in government, which caused John
Holland to take legal action against the government. We are defending that on
the basis of the lead in the water, as found by the Chief Health Officer. We
had to resolve that and now the opposition is taking John Holland's
side. What sort of people are you to do that to Western Australia? Yesterday
they were taking the side of South Australian industry against Western Australian
industry for submarine contracts, and today they are taking the side of John
Holland, a multinational corporation, against the taxpayers of Western Australia.
The Liberal Party in this state is, quite frankly, disgusting.
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