2. Hon RUTH DYSON (Labour—Port Hills) Link to this
to the Chairperson of the Health Committee
Will the Health Committee be seeking public submissions on the report from the Controller and Auditor-General Ministry of Health: Monitoring the Progress of the Primary Health Care Strategy?
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON (Chairperson of the Health Committee) Link to this
That is a matter for the committee to decide. It has not considered the matter yet.
If no legislation is needed to implement the Horn report, will the committee hear open, public submissions on the proposal to gut the Ministry of Health and set up the new bureaucracy, the national health board?
Mr SPEAKERI point out to the Hon Ruth Dyson that a supplementary question must relate to an item of business before the committee, not to an item that may possibly at some future stage come before the committee. I will give her a chance to reword her supplementary question. It needs to come within the Standing Orders.
Does the committee’s forward programme allow it to hear open, public submissions on implementation of the Horn report if no legislation is required to implement the report?
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON Link to this
As I said before, any committee’s forward programme can allow a whole spectrum of activities to take place. When I asked the member yesterday whether she knew of any ministerial reviews that had subsequently led to a select committee inquiry, she was unable to think of any such precedent.