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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 313 asked in the Legislative Assembly on 18 May 2022 by Ms L. Mettam

Parliament: 41 Session: 1

MEDI-HOTELS

313. Ms L. METTAM to the Minister for Health:

I have a supplementary question. How does the minister reconcile the fact that in the last two budgets there have been $11.5 billion in surpluses, but ambulance ramping has increased to a peak of over 6 500 hours under this government's watch?

Ms A. SANDERSON replied:

The supplementary question did not relate at all to the first question, although the first question was hard to understand; I will acknowledge that.

Ms L. Mettam: Undelivered beds.

The SPEAKER: Order, please, member for Vasse!

Ms A. SANDERSON: Under the last two budgets, the health spend has gone from $8.6 billion to more than $11 billion. The Liberal–National government was borrowing to pay the bills. It was borrowing to pay nurses and borrowing to pay the doctors. If we had continued down that track, there is no way that we could have managed the pandemic the way we have—to recruit 1 400 nurses and more than 500 doctors and to put more than 300 beds online since the last budget, which was only in September, by the way. By the end of this year, more than 580 beds will be online.

Ms L. Mettam: But don't ring 000.

Ms A. SANDERSON: You clearly do not want to hear the answer. All I can hear is muffled muttering on the other side.

This government has injected record investment in our health system at the time it was needed. Our budget in health has gone up every single year.