Andrew Hastie (Canning, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This is the 12th time I have spoken about Labor's failure to fix the Peel region's local hospital. Labor has been promising to upgrade the Peel Health Campus since 2017. They've delayed, they've fudged the dates, and they've lied about the budget. Here we are, almost a decade later, and we've seen no progress. Before the last state election, former premier Mark McGowan promised to invest $152 million into the hospital. We were told by the Peel Labor team that everything would be different and that everything would change for the better. Wait times, delays and ambulance ramping would all be fixed. Well, Labor won in a landslide, but nothing has changed. We are yet to see any significant investment into the hospital except for the $25 million that I secured in 2019 for upgrades to the emergency department. David Templeman, Lisa Munday and Robyn Clarke have not kept their word and delivered for our community.

I've talked to our hardworking nurses and doctors. They'll be on shift, just as they always are, serving our community, but nothing has changed for them. Will they have extra support, more beds or more staff assisting on shifts? No. When Labor was elected in March 2017, ambulance ramping at the Peel Health Campus was 6.9 hours for that month. Last month, ramping totalled more than 443 hours—and that's not even the highest on record. Labor has tried to spin its way out of this mess, but we're not buying it. My community, from Mandurah to Pinjarra and from Waroona to Dawesville, wants action— (Time expired)