Skip to main content
Home
  • The Legislative Assembly meets on 16/04/2024 (01:00 PM)
    Assembly sit 16/04/2024
  • The Legislative Council meets on 16/04/2024 (01:00 PM)
    Council sit 16/04/2024
  • The Public Administration meets on 08/04/2024 (10:00 AM)
    Committee meet 08/04/2024

Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 937 asked in the Legislative Assembly on 17 November 2020 by Mr Z.R.F. Kirkup

Parliament: 40 Session: 1

CORONAVIRUS — PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT — FIT TESTING

937. Mr Z.R.F. KIRKUP to the Minister for Health:

I have a supplementary question. I appreciate the minister's commitment to the safety of our frontline healthcare workers, and the Liberal Party stands with him in that. Given that most jurisdictions have rolled out fit testing for those masks in frontline hospitals throughout Australia, why is Western Australia still behind, and can the minister provide a date to this house of when frontline and high-risk healthcare workers here will get the fit testing of those masks that they deserve?

Mr R.H. COOK replied:

We heard from the Premier earlier about the exemplary behaviour of oppositions elsewhere, and particularly the South Australian opposition, which this week wrote to the Premier in that state to suggest that they should suspend estimates because they wanted to make sure that the government was committed to the single task of examining COVID-19. The tactics of the Western Australian opposition stand in stark contrast to that. The member comes to this place and makes statements such as, ''Every other state has done this; why haven't you?'', to somehow suggest that Western Australia is behind. That is simply not the case. Some states have been doing this as a matter of course; other states, for instance Western Australia and Queensland, are in the process of implementing this program. We are doing it in conjunction with the healthcare unions. We are doing it with their support. To come to this place and to once again try to undermine the government's efforts to protect our frontline workers really does no credit to the opposition.

The SPEAKER: That is the end of question time.