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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 974 asked in the Legislative Assembly on 4 December 2020 by Mr Z.R.F. Kirkup

Parliament: 40 Session: 1

AMBULANCE RAMPING

974. Mr Z.R.F. KIRKUP to the Premier:

I have a supplementary question. Can the Premier confirm that the worst ambulance ramping on record is symptomatic of this government's broader failure to have a clear plan for health and hospitals in Western Australia?

Mr M. McGOWAN replied:

The answer is clearly no. I just explained to the Liberal Party what has happened. All this year, all we have had is undermining and nitpicking about everything we have had to cope with as a state. Our hospitals are another example of that. Members opposite undermine our efforts to try to deal with a very difficult situation that has occurred here. If members opposite had had their way, our emergency departments would be overflowing with COVID cases. We would have had the situation that exists in the eastern states if the Liberal Party had had its way. If members opposite look at the emergency departments in Britain or the United States, they will see exactly what would have happened if the Liberal Party had had its way and brought down the border at the height of the pandemic.