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Petition
Presented April 8, 2008
Long term care
facility for Conception Bay North
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MR. SPEAKER: The
hon. the Member for Port de Grave.
MR. BUTLER: Thank
you, Mr. Speaker.
I rise again today to
present a petition with regards to a long-term care
facility for the Conception Bay North area. There is no
need to read the prayer of the petition, the body of the
petition; it has been presented before and accepted, Mr.
Speaker.
I just want to say that
back in 2001-2002 Conception Bay North was number one on
the list for a long-term care facility. As I present
those petitions, I am going to start a program now that
I am going to call ABC - Anything But Conception Bay -
because we know, Mr. Speaker, they were number one on
the list back at that time and we know that they have
dropped out of sight. People say they are on the radar,
but I do not think there is very much on the radar these
days with regards to a long-term care facility for the
Conception Bay North area.
I want to say, Mr.
Speaker, that the facilities that are there have served
their purpose. We have two facilities in Carbonear,
there is one in Clarke’s Beach, and they have served
the purpose, but it was determined back at that time –
AN HON. MEMBER: (Inaudible)
close down (inaudible).
MR. BUTLER: Mr.
Speaker, I reference the Member for Harbour Main-Whitbourne.
I am not saying to close down any one, but we all know
we need a long-term care facility.
Mr. Speaker, I was going
to call upon my hon. colleagues but I guess I know where
some of them stand on this now. They have already spoken
out.
SOME HON. MEMBERS: Oh,
oh!
MR. SPEAKER: Order,
please!
MR. BUTLER: I
want to call upon the Minister of Justice, the Member
for Carbonear-Harbour Grace, the Member for Bellevue,
the Member for Trinity-Bay de Verde, the Member for
Harbour Main-Whitbourne, and probably it takes in the
Member for Placentia & St. Mary’s as well, to
petition government and ask that at least if they cannot
come out and say yes, we can build a facility in the
near future, ask government to have another assessment
done and see what went wrong: why an area of the
Province could be number one on the list for a long-term
care facility and all of a sudden you are not up to a
standard to be accepted.
That is not speaking out
against all the other centres, all the other communities
in this Province that have had long-term care facilities
in the past and the ones that have new facilities now.
We are not against that. We know each and every area of
the Province needs those facilities. The need is there.
By building a new long-term care facility in the
Conception Bay North area, it will also alleviate the
problems that are encountered at the Carbonear General
Hospital.
I call upon the members
opposite, the members of the government, to step forward
and ask this government if they would even consider
asking that an assessment be done for the Conception Bay
North area so that the people can have a long-term care
facility which is greatly needed.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. |
