❓ Question regarding recurrent funding for the Woundswest program from royalties for regions to address the gap between city and country health services. The Minister's response indicates a decision is pending feedback from the Department of Health.
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WOUNDSWEST PROGRAM
I have a supplementary question. Given the contribution of the program to reducing the gap between city and country health services, will the minister be requesting recurrent funding from the royalties for regions program to ensure that this important program is continued? Dr K.D. HAMES
I have a supplementary question. Given the contribution of the program to reducing the gap between city and country health services, will the minister be requesting recurrent funding from the royalties for regions program to ensure that this important program is continued? Dr K.D. HAMES
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I think, in asking pre-prepared supplementaries such as that that are read out by members — Mr M.P. Murray : Yes or no? The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : This is not a yes-or-no answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Minister, take a seat. Everybody in this place knows that I read out a statement about supplementary questions. I am the final arbiter of whether the question is acceptable. Whether it is acceptable to you or not, I am the final arbiter, and I deem that the question asked by the member for Albany is acceptable. Minister, it is your turn to answer the question. Dr K.D. HAMES : I apologise if Mr Speaker got the impression that I was suggesting that the question was out of order; I was suggesting that it was not a very good question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
Dr K.D. HAMES replied: I think, in asking pre-prepared supplementaries such as that that are read out by members — Mr M.P. Murray : Yes or no? The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : This is not a yes-or-no answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Minister, take a seat. Everybody in this place knows that I read out a statement about supplementary questions. I am the final arbiter of whether the question is acceptable. Whether it is acceptable to you or not, I am the final arbiter, and I deem that the question asked by the member for Albany is acceptable. Minister, it is your turn to answer the question. Dr K.D. HAMES : I apologise if Mr Speaker got the impression that I was suggesting that the question was out of order; I was suggesting that it was not a very good question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
I think, in asking pre-prepared supplementaries such as that that are read out by members — Mr M.P. Murray : Yes or no? The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : This is not a yes-or-no answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Minister, take a seat. Everybody in this place knows that I read out a statement about supplementary questions. I am the final arbiter of whether the question is acceptable. Whether it is acceptable to you or not, I am the final arbiter, and I deem that the question asked by the member for Albany is acceptable. Minister, it is your turn to answer the question. Dr K.D. HAMES : I apologise if Mr Speaker got the impression that I was suggesting that the question was out of order; I was suggesting that it was not a very good question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
Mr M.P. Murray : Yes or no? The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : This is not a yes-or-no answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Minister, take a seat. Everybody in this place knows that I read out a statement about supplementary questions. I am the final arbiter of whether the question is acceptable. Whether it is acceptable to you or not, I am the final arbiter, and I deem that the question asked by the member for Albany is acceptable. Minister, it is your turn to answer the question. Dr K.D. HAMES : I apologise if Mr Speaker got the impression that I was suggesting that the question was out of order; I was suggesting that it was not a very good question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : This is not a yes-or-no answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Minister, take a seat. Everybody in this place knows that I read out a statement about supplementary questions. I am the final arbiter of whether the question is acceptable. Whether it is acceptable to you or not, I am the final arbiter, and I deem that the question asked by the member for Albany is acceptable. Minister, it is your turn to answer the question. Dr K.D. HAMES : I apologise if Mr Speaker got the impression that I was suggesting that the question was out of order; I was suggesting that it was not a very good question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
Dr K.D. HAMES : This is not a yes-or-no answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Minister, take a seat. Everybody in this place knows that I read out a statement about supplementary questions. I am the final arbiter of whether the question is acceptable. Whether it is acceptable to you or not, I am the final arbiter, and I deem that the question asked by the member for Albany is acceptable. Minister, it is your turn to answer the question. Dr K.D. HAMES : I apologise if Mr Speaker got the impression that I was suggesting that the question was out of order; I was suggesting that it was not a very good question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Minister, take a seat. Everybody in this place knows that I read out a statement about supplementary questions. I am the final arbiter of whether the question is acceptable. Whether it is acceptable to you or not, I am the final arbiter, and I deem that the question asked by the member for Albany is acceptable. Minister, it is your turn to answer the question. Dr K.D. HAMES : I apologise if Mr Speaker got the impression that I was suggesting that the question was out of order; I was suggesting that it was not a very good question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
The SPEAKER : Minister, take a seat. Everybody in this place knows that I read out a statement about supplementary questions. I am the final arbiter of whether the question is acceptable. Whether it is acceptable to you or not, I am the final arbiter, and I deem that the question asked by the member for Albany is acceptable. Minister, it is your turn to answer the question. Dr K.D. HAMES : I apologise if Mr Speaker got the impression that I was suggesting that the question was out of order; I was suggesting that it was not a very good question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
Dr K.D. HAMES : I apologise if Mr Speaker got the impression that I was suggesting that the question was out of order; I was suggesting that it was not a very good question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
Dr K.D. HAMES replied: I think, in asking pre-prepared supplementaries such as that that are read out by members — Mr M.P. Murray : Yes or no? The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : This is not a yes-or-no answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Minister, take a seat. Everybody in this place knows that I read out a statement about supplementary questions. I am the final arbiter of whether the question is acceptable. Whether it is acceptable to you or not, I am the final arbiter, and I deem that the question asked by the member for Albany is acceptable. Minister, it is your turn to answer the question. Dr K.D. HAMES : I apologise if Mr Speaker got the impression that I was suggesting that the question was out of order; I was suggesting that it was not a very good question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
I think, in asking pre-prepared supplementaries such as that that are read out by members — Mr M.P. Murray : Yes or no? The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : This is not a yes-or-no answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Minister, take a seat. Everybody in this place knows that I read out a statement about supplementary questions. I am the final arbiter of whether the question is acceptable. Whether it is acceptable to you or not, I am the final arbiter, and I deem that the question asked by the member for Albany is acceptable. Minister, it is your turn to answer the question. Dr K.D. HAMES : I apologise if Mr Speaker got the impression that I was suggesting that the question was out of order; I was suggesting that it was not a very good question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
Mr M.P. Murray : Yes or no? The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : This is not a yes-or-no answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Minister, take a seat. Everybody in this place knows that I read out a statement about supplementary questions. I am the final arbiter of whether the question is acceptable. Whether it is acceptable to you or not, I am the final arbiter, and I deem that the question asked by the member for Albany is acceptable. Minister, it is your turn to answer the question. Dr K.D. HAMES : I apologise if Mr Speaker got the impression that I was suggesting that the question was out of order; I was suggesting that it was not a very good question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : This is not a yes-or-no answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Minister, take a seat. Everybody in this place knows that I read out a statement about supplementary questions. I am the final arbiter of whether the question is acceptable. Whether it is acceptable to you or not, I am the final arbiter, and I deem that the question asked by the member for Albany is acceptable. Minister, it is your turn to answer the question. Dr K.D. HAMES : I apologise if Mr Speaker got the impression that I was suggesting that the question was out of order; I was suggesting that it was not a very good question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
Dr K.D. HAMES : This is not a yes-or-no answer. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Minister, take a seat. Everybody in this place knows that I read out a statement about supplementary questions. I am the final arbiter of whether the question is acceptable. Whether it is acceptable to you or not, I am the final arbiter, and I deem that the question asked by the member for Albany is acceptable. Minister, it is your turn to answer the question. Dr K.D. HAMES : I apologise if Mr Speaker got the impression that I was suggesting that the question was out of order; I was suggesting that it was not a very good question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Minister, take a seat. Everybody in this place knows that I read out a statement about supplementary questions. I am the final arbiter of whether the question is acceptable. Whether it is acceptable to you or not, I am the final arbiter, and I deem that the question asked by the member for Albany is acceptable. Minister, it is your turn to answer the question. Dr K.D. HAMES : I apologise if Mr Speaker got the impression that I was suggesting that the question was out of order; I was suggesting that it was not a very good question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
The SPEAKER : Minister, take a seat. Everybody in this place knows that I read out a statement about supplementary questions. I am the final arbiter of whether the question is acceptable. Whether it is acceptable to you or not, I am the final arbiter, and I deem that the question asked by the member for Albany is acceptable. Minister, it is your turn to answer the question. Dr K.D. HAMES : I apologise if Mr Speaker got the impression that I was suggesting that the question was out of order; I was suggesting that it was not a very good question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
Dr K.D. HAMES : I apologise if Mr Speaker got the impression that I was suggesting that the question was out of order; I was suggesting that it was not a very good question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
Dr K.D. HAMES : The reason it was not a good question was that not only was it lengthy and read out, but it took no account of the answer that I gave to the first part of the question, which was quite clearly that I am not in a position to answer at this stage until we have had the feedback from the Department of Health. Why would I go and ask for funds from the royalties for regions program when I am not even certain that anything is going to happen to it yet?
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