❓ Mr. Kirkup questions the Minister for Health about the state government's commitment to funding the Joondalup Health Campus expansion. The Minister defends the government's commitment, criticising the previous government's handling of the Perth Children's Hospital project.
AnsweredQoN 805Legislative Assembly
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JOONDALUP HEALTH CAMPUS —
REDEVELOPMENT
805. Mr Z.R.F. KIRKUP to the Minister for Health:
I refer to my question on 8 August
regarding WA Labor's 2017 election commitment of $160 million to expand
Joondalup Health Campus. Given the minister's admission that the only
funding in the budget is the money provided by the federal government, will he now
admit to the public of Western Australia that the McGowan Labor government has
no intention of providing the additional state money and funding its share of
the project?
REDEVELOPMENT
805. Mr Z.R.F. KIRKUP to the Minister for Health:
I refer to my question on 8 August
regarding WA Labor's 2017 election commitment of $160 million to expand
Joondalup Health Campus. Given the minister's admission that the only
funding in the budget is the money provided by the federal government, will he now
admit to the public of Western Australia that the McGowan Labor government has
no intention of providing the additional state money and funding its share of
the project?
AnswerView source ↗
Once
again, we have more misleading from the Liberal Party. We know that it is here
to simply do the work of relaying the negative stories from the federal
Liberal government. We are committed to the expansion of Joondalup Health
Campus because we are committed —
Mr Z.R.F. Kirkup : Where is
the money?
Mr R.H. COOK : There is $166
million in the budget, member for Dawesville, and there will be more! We
understand the full scope and costings associated with this project. All good
things come to those who wait, even to the member for Dawesville. The people of
Joondalup will at last get an expanded hospital so that hospital can continue
to serve the people of that community. We will be beginning expansion work on
this hospital in due course. One thing we will not do is to rush the project in
a manner that leads to the monumental stuff-ups that are writ large across the
history of the Barnett government and Perth Children's Hospital. The
member for Dawesville spoke at length about the $300 million dispute with the
contractors associated with that project. The reason for that, member for
Dawesville, is that the previous government so comprehensively stuffed up the
planning for that hospital. There were more variations than a yoga class in
downtown Fremantle. At the end of the day, we have to clean up the mess that
the previous government left us with, not only the lead in the hospital,
although we all know about that, and not only the asbestos in parts of that
hospital—we all know about that—but also the monumental
mismanagement of that hospital project. The previous government did not put the
hard work in and the Western Australian taxpayers are potentially on the hook
in that regard, but we hope they will not be through the great work of the
Minister for Finance. We in the Labor Party know how to do health. We opened
the hospital members opposite could not open, and we will open this one too.
again, we have more misleading from the Liberal Party. We know that it is here
to simply do the work of relaying the negative stories from the federal
Liberal government. We are committed to the expansion of Joondalup Health
Campus because we are committed —
Mr Z.R.F. Kirkup : Where is
the money?
Mr R.H. COOK : There is $166
million in the budget, member for Dawesville, and there will be more! We
understand the full scope and costings associated with this project. All good
things come to those who wait, even to the member for Dawesville. The people of
Joondalup will at last get an expanded hospital so that hospital can continue
to serve the people of that community. We will be beginning expansion work on
this hospital in due course. One thing we will not do is to rush the project in
a manner that leads to the monumental stuff-ups that are writ large across the
history of the Barnett government and Perth Children's Hospital. The
member for Dawesville spoke at length about the $300 million dispute with the
contractors associated with that project. The reason for that, member for
Dawesville, is that the previous government so comprehensively stuffed up the
planning for that hospital. There were more variations than a yoga class in
downtown Fremantle. At the end of the day, we have to clean up the mess that
the previous government left us with, not only the lead in the hospital,
although we all know about that, and not only the asbestos in parts of that
hospital—we all know about that—but also the monumental
mismanagement of that hospital project. The previous government did not put the
hard work in and the Western Australian taxpayers are potentially on the hook
in that regard, but we hope they will not be through the great work of the
Minister for Finance. We in the Labor Party know how to do health. We opened
the hospital members opposite could not open, and we will open this one too.
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