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Petition
Presented December 2, 2008
Long-term Care Facility for the Conception Bay North
Area
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MR. SPEAKER: The
hon. the Member for Port de Grave.
MR. BUTLER:
Thank you very much, Mr.
Speaker.
I want to present another
petition on behalf of the residents of Conception Bay
North with regard to a long-term care facility for that
area.
Just to go back over the
prayer of the petition, Mr. Speaker, there was an
external consultants’ report in 2007 which stated they
recommended that there should be a three-storey
long-term care facility for the Conception Bay North
area totalling some 210 beds, Mr. Speaker.
I know last year, from
documentation, that the department put forward a request
to government for funding to consider this facility for
Conception Bay North. I guess why I stand here every
day, Mr. Speaker, I get calls from constituents
throughout the area, only this past week from a family
who has an individual who has to go to one of those
facilities. We know the infrastructure is many years old
now and we need new infrastructure, but many of the
people now have to be moved to other areas far away from
their families. The family that I speak of, they have to
transfer them to St. John’s.
Mr. Speaker, that is why
those petitions are coming in; the people have concerns
and they are asking me to bring forward the petitions,
and hopefully my hon. colleagues opposite will
reconsider their decision. They have made announcements
this year for two new facilities for the St. John’s
area, and I am just asking government - we are getting
close to budget time now, and consultation on the Budget
- that they will consider the facility for Conception
Bay North, which has been on the priority list for quite
some time, and hopefully it will become a reality sooner
rather than later.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. |
