❓ Mr. Barron-Sullivan questions the Minister for Health about the status of senior nursing positions at Bunbury Regional Hospital after the Minister stated he stopped plans to abolish them. The Minister acknowledges the issue and states he has intervened, but the questioner insists the nurses are still unaware.
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I refer to the minister’s explanation on radio - Dr G.I. Gallop: You have been a bit quiet lately. Mr D.F. BARRON-SULLIVAN: If the Premier listens carefully he might hear the question. Point of Order Mr J.H.D. DAY: Mr Speaker, you have been very regularly calling to order members of the Opposition. I think you need to be consistent and call the Premier to order. The SPEAKER: I am sure that the member for Darling Range was not inferring criticism of the Chair. If that were the case, I would take stern action against the member for Darling Range. It is quite true that any interjection is disorderly. Any members on my right who interjects on a question will be called to order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr D.F. BARRON-SULLIVAN: As I was saying before that disorderly interjection, I refer to the minister’s explanation on radio this morning that he had put a stop last week to plans to abolish senior nursing positions at Bunbury Regional Hospital. (1) In view of the minister’s commitment on radio today, why have the senior nurses whose jobs have been abolished - and I have in my hand a copy of the letter giving each SRN3 hospital nursing coordinator a month’s notice - not been advised by now that their positions are in fact safe? (2) Are their jobs safe or not? (3) Will the minister guarantee that no nursing jobs at Bunbury Regional Hospital will be abolished? Mr J.A. McGINTY
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(1)-(3) I was made aware about a week and a half or two weeks ago - as it was put to me - of a proposal to spill a number of positions in the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. Mr B.K. Masters interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
Dr G.I. Gallop: You have been a bit quiet lately. Mr D.F. BARRON-SULLIVAN: If the Premier listens carefully he might hear the question. Point of Order Mr J.H.D. DAY: Mr Speaker, you have been very regularly calling to order members of the Opposition. I think you need to be consistent and call the Premier to order. The SPEAKER: I am sure that the member for Darling Range was not inferring criticism of the Chair. If that were the case, I would take stern action against the member for Darling Range. It is quite true that any interjection is disorderly. Any members on my right who interjects on a question will be called to order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr D.F. BARRON-SULLIVAN: As I was saying before that disorderly interjection, I refer to the minister’s explanation on radio this morning that he had put a stop last week to plans to abolish senior nursing positions at Bunbury Regional Hospital. (1) In view of the minister’s commitment on radio today, why have the senior nurses whose jobs have been abolished - and I have in my hand a copy of the letter giving each SRN3 hospital nursing coordinator a month’s notice - not been advised by now that their positions are in fact safe? (2) Are their jobs safe or not? (3) Will the minister guarantee that no nursing jobs at Bunbury Regional Hospital will be abolished? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) I was made aware about a week and a half or two weeks ago - as it was put to me - of a proposal to spill a number of positions in the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. Mr B.K. Masters interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
Mr D.F. BARRON-SULLIVAN: If the Premier listens carefully he might hear the question. Point of Order Mr J.H.D. DAY: Mr Speaker, you have been very regularly calling to order members of the Opposition. I think you need to be consistent and call the Premier to order. The SPEAKER: I am sure that the member for Darling Range was not inferring criticism of the Chair. If that were the case, I would take stern action against the member for Darling Range. It is quite true that any interjection is disorderly. Any members on my right who interjects on a question will be called to order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr D.F. BARRON-SULLIVAN: As I was saying before that disorderly interjection, I refer to the minister’s explanation on radio this morning that he had put a stop last week to plans to abolish senior nursing positions at Bunbury Regional Hospital. (1) In view of the minister’s commitment on radio today, why have the senior nurses whose jobs have been abolished - and I have in my hand a copy of the letter giving each SRN3 hospital nursing coordinator a month’s notice - not been advised by now that their positions are in fact safe? (2) Are their jobs safe or not? (3) Will the minister guarantee that no nursing jobs at Bunbury Regional Hospital will be abolished? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) I was made aware about a week and a half or two weeks ago - as it was put to me - of a proposal to spill a number of positions in the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. Mr B.K. Masters interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
The SPEAKER: I am sure that the member for Darling Range was not inferring criticism of the Chair. If that were the case, I would take stern action against the member for Darling Range. It is quite true that any interjection is disorderly. Any members on my right who interjects on a question will be called to order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr D.F. BARRON-SULLIVAN: As I was saying before that disorderly interjection, I refer to the minister’s explanation on radio this morning that he had put a stop last week to plans to abolish senior nursing positions at Bunbury Regional Hospital. (1) In view of the minister’s commitment on radio today, why have the senior nurses whose jobs have been abolished - and I have in my hand a copy of the letter giving each SRN3 hospital nursing coordinator a month’s notice - not been advised by now that their positions are in fact safe? (2) Are their jobs safe or not? (3) Will the minister guarantee that no nursing jobs at Bunbury Regional Hospital will be abolished? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) I was made aware about a week and a half or two weeks ago - as it was put to me - of a proposal to spill a number of positions in the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. Mr B.K. Masters interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
(1) In view of the minister’s commitment on radio today, why have the senior nurses whose jobs have been abolished - and I have in my hand a copy of the letter giving each SRN3 hospital nursing coordinator a month’s notice - not been advised by now that their positions are in fact safe? (2) Are their jobs safe or not? (3) Will the minister guarantee that no nursing jobs at Bunbury Regional Hospital will be abolished? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) I was made aware about a week and a half or two weeks ago - as it was put to me - of a proposal to spill a number of positions in the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. Mr B.K. Masters interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
(2) Are their jobs safe or not? (3) Will the minister guarantee that no nursing jobs at Bunbury Regional Hospital will be abolished? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) I was made aware about a week and a half or two weeks ago - as it was put to me - of a proposal to spill a number of positions in the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. Mr B.K. Masters interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
(3) Will the minister guarantee that no nursing jobs at Bunbury Regional Hospital will be abolished? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) I was made aware about a week and a half or two weeks ago - as it was put to me - of a proposal to spill a number of positions in the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. Mr B.K. Masters interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) I was made aware about a week and a half or two weeks ago - as it was put to me - of a proposal to spill a number of positions in the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. Mr B.K. Masters interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
(1)-(3) I was made aware about a week and a half or two weeks ago - as it was put to me - of a proposal to spill a number of positions in the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. Mr B.K. Masters interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. Mr B.K. Masters interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
Mr B.K. Masters interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
Dr G.I. Gallop: You have been a bit quiet lately. Mr D.F. BARRON-SULLIVAN: If the Premier listens carefully he might hear the question. Point of Order Mr J.H.D. DAY: Mr Speaker, you have been very regularly calling to order members of the Opposition. I think you need to be consistent and call the Premier to order. The SPEAKER: I am sure that the member for Darling Range was not inferring criticism of the Chair. If that were the case, I would take stern action against the member for Darling Range. It is quite true that any interjection is disorderly. Any members on my right who interjects on a question will be called to order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr D.F. BARRON-SULLIVAN: As I was saying before that disorderly interjection, I refer to the minister’s explanation on radio this morning that he had put a stop last week to plans to abolish senior nursing positions at Bunbury Regional Hospital. (1) In view of the minister’s commitment on radio today, why have the senior nurses whose jobs have been abolished - and I have in my hand a copy of the letter giving each SRN3 hospital nursing coordinator a month’s notice - not been advised by now that their positions are in fact safe? (2) Are their jobs safe or not? (3) Will the minister guarantee that no nursing jobs at Bunbury Regional Hospital will be abolished? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) I was made aware about a week and a half or two weeks ago - as it was put to me - of a proposal to spill a number of positions in the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. Mr B.K. Masters interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
Mr D.F. BARRON-SULLIVAN: If the Premier listens carefully he might hear the question. Point of Order Mr J.H.D. DAY: Mr Speaker, you have been very regularly calling to order members of the Opposition. I think you need to be consistent and call the Premier to order. The SPEAKER: I am sure that the member for Darling Range was not inferring criticism of the Chair. If that were the case, I would take stern action against the member for Darling Range. It is quite true that any interjection is disorderly. Any members on my right who interjects on a question will be called to order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr D.F. BARRON-SULLIVAN: As I was saying before that disorderly interjection, I refer to the minister’s explanation on radio this morning that he had put a stop last week to plans to abolish senior nursing positions at Bunbury Regional Hospital. (1) In view of the minister’s commitment on radio today, why have the senior nurses whose jobs have been abolished - and I have in my hand a copy of the letter giving each SRN3 hospital nursing coordinator a month’s notice - not been advised by now that their positions are in fact safe? (2) Are their jobs safe or not? (3) Will the minister guarantee that no nursing jobs at Bunbury Regional Hospital will be abolished? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) I was made aware about a week and a half or two weeks ago - as it was put to me - of a proposal to spill a number of positions in the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. Mr B.K. Masters interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
The SPEAKER: I am sure that the member for Darling Range was not inferring criticism of the Chair. If that were the case, I would take stern action against the member for Darling Range. It is quite true that any interjection is disorderly. Any members on my right who interjects on a question will be called to order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr D.F. BARRON-SULLIVAN: As I was saying before that disorderly interjection, I refer to the minister’s explanation on radio this morning that he had put a stop last week to plans to abolish senior nursing positions at Bunbury Regional Hospital. (1) In view of the minister’s commitment on radio today, why have the senior nurses whose jobs have been abolished - and I have in my hand a copy of the letter giving each SRN3 hospital nursing coordinator a month’s notice - not been advised by now that their positions are in fact safe? (2) Are their jobs safe or not? (3) Will the minister guarantee that no nursing jobs at Bunbury Regional Hospital will be abolished? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) I was made aware about a week and a half or two weeks ago - as it was put to me - of a proposal to spill a number of positions in the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. Mr B.K. Masters interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
(1) In view of the minister’s commitment on radio today, why have the senior nurses whose jobs have been abolished - and I have in my hand a copy of the letter giving each SRN3 hospital nursing coordinator a month’s notice - not been advised by now that their positions are in fact safe? (2) Are their jobs safe or not? (3) Will the minister guarantee that no nursing jobs at Bunbury Regional Hospital will be abolished? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) I was made aware about a week and a half or two weeks ago - as it was put to me - of a proposal to spill a number of positions in the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. Mr B.K. Masters interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
(2) Are their jobs safe or not? (3) Will the minister guarantee that no nursing jobs at Bunbury Regional Hospital will be abolished? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) I was made aware about a week and a half or two weeks ago - as it was put to me - of a proposal to spill a number of positions in the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. Mr B.K. Masters interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
(3) Will the minister guarantee that no nursing jobs at Bunbury Regional Hospital will be abolished? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) I was made aware about a week and a half or two weeks ago - as it was put to me - of a proposal to spill a number of positions in the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. Mr B.K. Masters interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(3) I was made aware about a week and a half or two weeks ago - as it was put to me - of a proposal to spill a number of positions in the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. Mr B.K. Masters interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
(1)-(3) I was made aware about a week and a half or two weeks ago - as it was put to me - of a proposal to spill a number of positions in the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. Mr B.K. Masters interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan interjected. Mr B.K. Masters interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
Mr B.K. Masters interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
The SPEAKER: Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: I was made aware of a proposal to spill a number of positions throughout the south west area health service, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton. When I was made aware that that was what was being proposed for people who had been long-term, loyal and good employees to the hospitals, particularly in Bunbury and Busselton, and that they would have to reapply for their jobs, I put a stop to it. I called the south west area general manager up to Perth. We had an early morning meeting and I said, “I do not agree that this is an appropriate way to treat your staff; put a stop to it.” Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
Mr P.D. Omodei: What about the ones in Warren-Blackwood? The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
The SPEAKER: Order, member for Warren-Blackwood! Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: I am trying to answer the question. The member’s deputy leader has an interest in having this question answered. I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
I told him that that was not an appropriate way to deal with these issues and to put a stop to the spilling of those positions. I gave that direct instruction to Mr Michael Moodie at a meeting in the Department of Health one day last week. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: That is a separate matter. To this day the people in those positions do not know about that instruction. They still think their jobs are going and that they will have to reapply for them. That is a separate matter. Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: On what the member regards as a separate matter, the staff who were facing being spilled do know, because I have made sure that they know that that decision has been reversed. I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
I have spoken today with the Department of Health to ascertain the background to the nursing positions to which the member refers. I have not yet received a detailed briefing. I have put a stop to any concept of positions being spilled. If there is a proposal, without a reduction in positions, for some sort of a restructuring of the way things are done that does not force people to reapply for their old jobs and does not reduce the number of senior nursing positions, I am happy to look at the details, but I did not think proposing to spill their jobs was the way to manage good, loyal and long-term staff. While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
While I am on my feet I will make this point. The other great beneficiaries of the Reid review will be the regional cities of Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Broome, Port Hedland and Geraldton, where we are building a new showpiece hospital at the moment. Those regional cities will have their facilities significantly upgraded under the Reid proposals to make sure that people who live in those country regions can access the highest quality health care rather than being sent to Perth as happens all too often at the moment. This is a magnificent report in terms of the benefit it will give to everybody living in regional Western Australia as well as those in the city.
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