Santo Santoro (Queensland, Liberal Party, Minister for Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

I can understand why senators opposite want to gag me: they do not like what I am saying. They do not ever seem to like the truth. Patients are being put at risk and people in Queensland are dying as a result of this neglect. I go on the record as saying that because of that neglect they are dying, and senators opposite know it. I would like to conclude by summarising for those opposite what Beattie Labor’s legacy of health includes. It includes: failure to properly check the qualifications and history of medical staff that are brought in; having unqualified doctors performing duties and procedures above their levels of skill; through controversial deeming processes—