Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I move:

That the Senate take note of the document.

I wish to correct and make some observations in relation to Minister Roxon’s statement on e-health which was tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday. I would like to start by correcting some of the comments made by the minister, starting with the fact that she has asserted that for more than three months the government has wanted the Senate to consider the Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010. I remind the minister—and suggest that she obviously does not take very much notice of what happens here in the Senate—that in relation to the health identifiers bill, if the government cannot get its program right and cannot get this bill up to be debated before this house, it is not the fault of the opposition. I say to Minister Roxon that this case is another hissy fit that ‘Nurse Roxon’ is having. She is getting stroppy with people just because they do not do what she says.

On that note, I refer to some comments that were made in the House yesterday by the member for Dickson, the shadow minister for health in response to this statement—