❓ Mr. Cook asks when the Minister will announce the opening of beds at Denmark District Hospital. Dr. Hames responds that the announcement depends on Commonwealth funding approval, blaming federal bureaucrats and highlighting previous disagreements with the federal health minister.
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DENMARK DISTRICT HOSPITAL
I have a supplementary question. When will the minister make that announcement to the people of Denmark? Dr K.D. HAMES
I have a supplementary question. When will the minister make that announcement to the people of Denmark? Dr K.D. HAMES
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As soon as the commonwealth agrees to fund the beds that we have sitting there waiting to be opened. As soon as — Mr R.H. Cook : Why don’t you just do it? Dr K.D. HAMES : What does the member mean? We do not fund the beds. The Labor Party’s federal colleagues fund those beds! Does the member for Kwinana want me to stand up to the federal health minister? I would love to stand up to the health minister; in fact, I may have done it on one or two occasions already, particularly on national registration, for which we had a good win for this state. However, I will tell members that not even the federal health member makes this decision. She does not make the decision. It is the bureaucrats that sit under her who make the decision, and we cannot get their agreement to provide the funding. As soon as we do, we will announce it.
Dr K.D. HAMES replied: As soon as the commonwealth agrees to fund the beds that we have sitting there waiting to be opened. As soon as — Mr R.H. Cook : Why don’t you just do it? Dr K.D. HAMES : What does the member mean? We do not fund the beds. The Labor Party’s federal colleagues fund those beds! Does the member for Kwinana want me to stand up to the federal health minister? I would love to stand up to the health minister; in fact, I may have done it on one or two occasions already, particularly on national registration, for which we had a good win for this state. However, I will tell members that not even the federal health member makes this decision. She does not make the decision. It is the bureaucrats that sit under her who make the decision, and we cannot get their agreement to provide the funding. As soon as we do, we will announce it.
As soon as the commonwealth agrees to fund the beds that we have sitting there waiting to be opened. As soon as — Mr R.H. Cook : Why don’t you just do it? Dr K.D. HAMES : What does the member mean? We do not fund the beds. The Labor Party’s federal colleagues fund those beds! Does the member for Kwinana want me to stand up to the federal health minister? I would love to stand up to the health minister; in fact, I may have done it on one or two occasions already, particularly on national registration, for which we had a good win for this state. However, I will tell members that not even the federal health member makes this decision. She does not make the decision. It is the bureaucrats that sit under her who make the decision, and we cannot get their agreement to provide the funding. As soon as we do, we will announce it.
Mr R.H. Cook : Why don’t you just do it? Dr K.D. HAMES : What does the member mean? We do not fund the beds. The Labor Party’s federal colleagues fund those beds! Does the member for Kwinana want me to stand up to the federal health minister? I would love to stand up to the health minister; in fact, I may have done it on one or two occasions already, particularly on national registration, for which we had a good win for this state. However, I will tell members that not even the federal health member makes this decision. She does not make the decision. It is the bureaucrats that sit under her who make the decision, and we cannot get their agreement to provide the funding. As soon as we do, we will announce it.
Dr K.D. HAMES : What does the member mean? We do not fund the beds. The Labor Party’s federal colleagues fund those beds! Does the member for Kwinana want me to stand up to the federal health minister? I would love to stand up to the health minister; in fact, I may have done it on one or two occasions already, particularly on national registration, for which we had a good win for this state. However, I will tell members that not even the federal health member makes this decision. She does not make the decision. It is the bureaucrats that sit under her who make the decision, and we cannot get their agreement to provide the funding. As soon as we do, we will announce it.
Dr K.D. HAMES replied: As soon as the commonwealth agrees to fund the beds that we have sitting there waiting to be opened. As soon as — Mr R.H. Cook : Why don’t you just do it? Dr K.D. HAMES : What does the member mean? We do not fund the beds. The Labor Party’s federal colleagues fund those beds! Does the member for Kwinana want me to stand up to the federal health minister? I would love to stand up to the health minister; in fact, I may have done it on one or two occasions already, particularly on national registration, for which we had a good win for this state. However, I will tell members that not even the federal health member makes this decision. She does not make the decision. It is the bureaucrats that sit under her who make the decision, and we cannot get their agreement to provide the funding. As soon as we do, we will announce it.
As soon as the commonwealth agrees to fund the beds that we have sitting there waiting to be opened. As soon as — Mr R.H. Cook : Why don’t you just do it? Dr K.D. HAMES : What does the member mean? We do not fund the beds. The Labor Party’s federal colleagues fund those beds! Does the member for Kwinana want me to stand up to the federal health minister? I would love to stand up to the health minister; in fact, I may have done it on one or two occasions already, particularly on national registration, for which we had a good win for this state. However, I will tell members that not even the federal health member makes this decision. She does not make the decision. It is the bureaucrats that sit under her who make the decision, and we cannot get their agreement to provide the funding. As soon as we do, we will announce it.
Mr R.H. Cook : Why don’t you just do it? Dr K.D. HAMES : What does the member mean? We do not fund the beds. The Labor Party’s federal colleagues fund those beds! Does the member for Kwinana want me to stand up to the federal health minister? I would love to stand up to the health minister; in fact, I may have done it on one or two occasions already, particularly on national registration, for which we had a good win for this state. However, I will tell members that not even the federal health member makes this decision. She does not make the decision. It is the bureaucrats that sit under her who make the decision, and we cannot get their agreement to provide the funding. As soon as we do, we will announce it.
Dr K.D. HAMES : What does the member mean? We do not fund the beds. The Labor Party’s federal colleagues fund those beds! Does the member for Kwinana want me to stand up to the federal health minister? I would love to stand up to the health minister; in fact, I may have done it on one or two occasions already, particularly on national registration, for which we had a good win for this state. However, I will tell members that not even the federal health member makes this decision. She does not make the decision. It is the bureaucrats that sit under her who make the decision, and we cannot get their agreement to provide the funding. As soon as we do, we will announce it.
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