❓ Question regarding government projects in Bunbury and the South West, specifically funding for respite accommodation for young people with multiple sclerosis and acquired brain injury. The Premier's answer details the importance of the project and acknowledges key stakeholders.
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BUNBURY — SOUTH WEST REGION — GOVERNMENT PROJECTS
Before I ask my question, I would like to acknowledge the students, teachers and friends of Hope Christian College in Roelands, which falls within the Murray-Wellington electorate. I welcome them and all the other students to the Parliament of Western Australia. I refer to the extensive work that the Liberal-National government has begun delivering to Bunbury and surrounding regions after just one year in government. I am particularly pleased to note the announcement today of significant government funding to help build in my electorate new respite accommodation for young people with multiple sclerosis and acquired brain injury. Will the Premier outline why Bunbury and the south west are so important to Western Australia’s future and the status of projects our government is undertaking in this region? Mr C.J. BARNETT
Before I ask my question, I would like to acknowledge the students, teachers and friends of Hope Christian College in Roelands, which falls within the Murray-Wellington electorate. I welcome them and all the other students to the Parliament of Western Australia. I refer to the extensive work that the Liberal-National government has begun delivering to Bunbury and surrounding regions after just one year in government. I am particularly pleased to note the announcement today of significant government funding to help build in my electorate new respite accommodation for young people with multiple sclerosis and acquired brain injury. Will the Premier outline why Bunbury and the south west are so important to Western Australia’s future and the status of projects our government is undertaking in this region? Mr C.J. BARNETT
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I thank the member for Murray-Wellington for his question. I, along with he, the Minister for Health and the member and minister representing Bunbury, John Castrilli, attended a very enjoyable, poignant event this morning. It has been the case that for people, particularly young people, suffering from multiple sclerosis or other neurological conditions, also for young people involved in accidents who have suffered traumatic brain injury, there has often been little choice but for parents, sometimes ageing parents, to try to care for them at home or they have had to be sent to Perth for care. That is very unsatisfactory. In other cases young people have been placed in nursing homes. It means a loss of dignity and privacy for these young people, who like to be among their own age group. They and their families would like to stay in the local community. I would like to take this opportunity to give particular credit to the member for Bunbury, Hon John Castrilli: he has worked as a local member—not as a minister but a local member—for the past six to eight years to ensure that a facility is built in Bunbury and the south west particularly for young people with those conditions so that they can have the high-quality care that they need, and the dignity of proper accommodation, and so that they can be in an environment with their peers, with other sadly afflicted young people, and not have to be placed in nursing homes or sent to Perth for care. Today the Minister for Health presented a cheque for $701 000 to the Multiple Sclerosis Society. That will buy a 4 000 square metre block of land in Australind, and the MS Society, with the support of local Rotary and other groups, will build a facility that will provide quality long-term care for perhaps eight to 12 young people, and will also provide respite care so that young people being cared for at home can go there for periods—weekends, or two or three weeks. I would have thought members opposite would be interested in this answer. This is not about the Liberal government or the Labor government; this is about the people of Western Australia reacting to a community need as articulated by the member for Bunbury and about something that the people of Western Australia have delivered in this community. The people of Bunbury should feel very proud of what was achieved today.
I refer to the extensive work that the Liberal-National government has begun delivering to Bunbury and surrounding regions after just one year in government. I am particularly pleased to note the announcement today of significant government funding to help build in my electorate new respite accommodation for young people with multiple sclerosis and acquired brain injury. Will the Premier outline why Bunbury and the south west are so important to Western Australia’s future and the status of projects our government is undertaking in this region? Mr C.J. BARNETT replied : I thank the member for Murray-Wellington for his question. I, along with he, the Minister for Health and the member and minister representing Bunbury, John Castrilli, attended a very enjoyable, poignant event this morning. It has been the case that for people, particularly young people, suffering from multiple sclerosis or other neurological conditions, also for young people involved in accidents who have suffered traumatic brain injury, there has often been little choice but for parents, sometimes ageing parents, to try to care for them at home or they have had to be sent to Perth for care. That is very unsatisfactory. In other cases young people have been placed in nursing homes. It means a loss of dignity and privacy for these young people, who like to be among their own age group. They and their families would like to stay in the local community. I would like to take this opportunity to give particular credit to the member for Bunbury, Hon John Castrilli: he has worked as a local member—not as a minister but a local member—for the past six to eight years to ensure that a facility is built in Bunbury and the south west particularly for young people with those conditions so that they can have the high-quality care that they need, and the dignity of proper accommodation, and so that they can be in an environment with their peers, with other sadly afflicted young people, and not have to be placed in nursing homes or sent to Perth for care. Today the Minister for Health presented a cheque for $701 000 to the Multiple Sclerosis Society. That will buy a 4 000 square metre block of land in Australind, and the MS Society, with the support of local Rotary and other groups, will build a facility that will provide quality long-term care for perhaps eight to 12 young people, and will also provide respite care so that young people being cared for at home can go there for periods—weekends, or two or three weeks. I would have thought members opposite would be interested in this answer. This is not about the Liberal government or the Labor government; this is about the people of Western Australia reacting to a community need as articulated by the member for Bunbury and about something that the people of Western Australia have delivered in this community. The people of Bunbury should feel very proud of what was achieved today.
Mr C.J. BARNETT replied : I thank the member for Murray-Wellington for his question. I, along with he, the Minister for Health and the member and minister representing Bunbury, John Castrilli, attended a very enjoyable, poignant event this morning. It has been the case that for people, particularly young people, suffering from multiple sclerosis or other neurological conditions, also for young people involved in accidents who have suffered traumatic brain injury, there has often been little choice but for parents, sometimes ageing parents, to try to care for them at home or they have had to be sent to Perth for care. That is very unsatisfactory. In other cases young people have been placed in nursing homes. It means a loss of dignity and privacy for these young people, who like to be among their own age group. They and their families would like to stay in the local community. I would like to take this opportunity to give particular credit to the member for Bunbury, Hon John Castrilli: he has worked as a local member—not as a minister but a local member—for the past six to eight years to ensure that a facility is built in Bunbury and the south west particularly for young people with those conditions so that they can have the high-quality care that they need, and the dignity of proper accommodation, and so that they can be in an environment with their peers, with other sadly afflicted young people, and not have to be placed in nursing homes or sent to Perth for care. Today the Minister for Health presented a cheque for $701 000 to the Multiple Sclerosis Society. That will buy a 4 000 square metre block of land in Australind, and the MS Society, with the support of local Rotary and other groups, will build a facility that will provide quality long-term care for perhaps eight to 12 young people, and will also provide respite care so that young people being cared for at home can go there for periods—weekends, or two or three weeks. I would have thought members opposite would be interested in this answer. This is not about the Liberal government or the Labor government; this is about the people of Western Australia reacting to a community need as articulated by the member for Bunbury and about something that the people of Western Australia have delivered in this community. The people of Bunbury should feel very proud of what was achieved today.
I thank the member for Murray-Wellington for his question. I, along with he, the Minister for Health and the member and minister representing Bunbury, John Castrilli, attended a very enjoyable, poignant event this morning. It has been the case that for people, particularly young people, suffering from multiple sclerosis or other neurological conditions, also for young people involved in accidents who have suffered traumatic brain injury, there has often been little choice but for parents, sometimes ageing parents, to try to care for them at home or they have had to be sent to Perth for care. That is very unsatisfactory. In other cases young people have been placed in nursing homes. It means a loss of dignity and privacy for these young people, who like to be among their own age group. They and their families would like to stay in the local community. I would like to take this opportunity to give particular credit to the member for Bunbury, Hon John Castrilli: he has worked as a local member—not as a minister but a local member—for the past six to eight years to ensure that a facility is built in Bunbury and the south west particularly for young people with those conditions so that they can have the high-quality care that they need, and the dignity of proper accommodation, and so that they can be in an environment with their peers, with other sadly afflicted young people, and not have to be placed in nursing homes or sent to Perth for care. Today the Minister for Health presented a cheque for $701 000 to the Multiple Sclerosis Society. That will buy a 4 000 square metre block of land in Australind, and the MS Society, with the support of local Rotary and other groups, will build a facility that will provide quality long-term care for perhaps eight to 12 young people, and will also provide respite care so that young people being cared for at home can go there for periods—weekends, or two or three weeks. I would have thought members opposite would be interested in this answer. This is not about the Liberal government or the Labor government; this is about the people of Western Australia reacting to a community need as articulated by the member for Bunbury and about something that the people of Western Australia have delivered in this community. The people of Bunbury should feel very proud of what was achieved today.
I refer to the extensive work that the Liberal-National government has begun delivering to Bunbury and surrounding regions after just one year in government. I am particularly pleased to note the announcement today of significant government funding to help build in my electorate new respite accommodation for young people with multiple sclerosis and acquired brain injury. Will the Premier outline why Bunbury and the south west are so important to Western Australia’s future and the status of projects our government is undertaking in this region? Mr C.J. BARNETT replied : I thank the member for Murray-Wellington for his question. I, along with he, the Minister for Health and the member and minister representing Bunbury, John Castrilli, attended a very enjoyable, poignant event this morning. It has been the case that for people, particularly young people, suffering from multiple sclerosis or other neurological conditions, also for young people involved in accidents who have suffered traumatic brain injury, there has often been little choice but for parents, sometimes ageing parents, to try to care for them at home or they have had to be sent to Perth for care. That is very unsatisfactory. In other cases young people have been placed in nursing homes. It means a loss of dignity and privacy for these young people, who like to be among their own age group. They and their families would like to stay in the local community. I would like to take this opportunity to give particular credit to the member for Bunbury, Hon John Castrilli: he has worked as a local member—not as a minister but a local member—for the past six to eight years to ensure that a facility is built in Bunbury and the south west particularly for young people with those conditions so that they can have the high-quality care that they need, and the dignity of proper accommodation, and so that they can be in an environment with their peers, with other sadly afflicted young people, and not have to be placed in nursing homes or sent to Perth for care. Today the Minister for Health presented a cheque for $701 000 to the Multiple Sclerosis Society. That will buy a 4 000 square metre block of land in Australind, and the MS Society, with the support of local Rotary and other groups, will build a facility that will provide quality long-term care for perhaps eight to 12 young people, and will also provide respite care so that young people being cared for at home can go there for periods—weekends, or two or three weeks. I would have thought members opposite would be interested in this answer. This is not about the Liberal government or the Labor government; this is about the people of Western Australia reacting to a community need as articulated by the member for Bunbury and about something that the people of Western Australia have delivered in this community. The people of Bunbury should feel very proud of what was achieved today.
Mr C.J. BARNETT replied : I thank the member for Murray-Wellington for his question. I, along with he, the Minister for Health and the member and minister representing Bunbury, John Castrilli, attended a very enjoyable, poignant event this morning. It has been the case that for people, particularly young people, suffering from multiple sclerosis or other neurological conditions, also for young people involved in accidents who have suffered traumatic brain injury, there has often been little choice but for parents, sometimes ageing parents, to try to care for them at home or they have had to be sent to Perth for care. That is very unsatisfactory. In other cases young people have been placed in nursing homes. It means a loss of dignity and privacy for these young people, who like to be among their own age group. They and their families would like to stay in the local community. I would like to take this opportunity to give particular credit to the member for Bunbury, Hon John Castrilli: he has worked as a local member—not as a minister but a local member—for the past six to eight years to ensure that a facility is built in Bunbury and the south west particularly for young people with those conditions so that they can have the high-quality care that they need, and the dignity of proper accommodation, and so that they can be in an environment with their peers, with other sadly afflicted young people, and not have to be placed in nursing homes or sent to Perth for care. Today the Minister for Health presented a cheque for $701 000 to the Multiple Sclerosis Society. That will buy a 4 000 square metre block of land in Australind, and the MS Society, with the support of local Rotary and other groups, will build a facility that will provide quality long-term care for perhaps eight to 12 young people, and will also provide respite care so that young people being cared for at home can go there for periods—weekends, or two or three weeks. I would have thought members opposite would be interested in this answer. This is not about the Liberal government or the Labor government; this is about the people of Western Australia reacting to a community need as articulated by the member for Bunbury and about something that the people of Western Australia have delivered in this community. The people of Bunbury should feel very proud of what was achieved today.
I thank the member for Murray-Wellington for his question. I, along with he, the Minister for Health and the member and minister representing Bunbury, John Castrilli, attended a very enjoyable, poignant event this morning. It has been the case that for people, particularly young people, suffering from multiple sclerosis or other neurological conditions, also for young people involved in accidents who have suffered traumatic brain injury, there has often been little choice but for parents, sometimes ageing parents, to try to care for them at home or they have had to be sent to Perth for care. That is very unsatisfactory. In other cases young people have been placed in nursing homes. It means a loss of dignity and privacy for these young people, who like to be among their own age group. They and their families would like to stay in the local community. I would like to take this opportunity to give particular credit to the member for Bunbury, Hon John Castrilli: he has worked as a local member—not as a minister but a local member—for the past six to eight years to ensure that a facility is built in Bunbury and the south west particularly for young people with those conditions so that they can have the high-quality care that they need, and the dignity of proper accommodation, and so that they can be in an environment with their peers, with other sadly afflicted young people, and not have to be placed in nursing homes or sent to Perth for care. Today the Minister for Health presented a cheque for $701 000 to the Multiple Sclerosis Society. That will buy a 4 000 square metre block of land in Australind, and the MS Society, with the support of local Rotary and other groups, will build a facility that will provide quality long-term care for perhaps eight to 12 young people, and will also provide respite care so that young people being cared for at home can go there for periods—weekends, or two or three weeks. I would have thought members opposite would be interested in this answer. This is not about the Liberal government or the Labor government; this is about the people of Western Australia reacting to a community need as articulated by the member for Bunbury and about something that the people of Western Australia have delivered in this community. The people of Bunbury should feel very proud of what was achieved today.
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