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Petition
Presented December 4, 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:
Unfortunately, I do not
have a pile of petitions like my hon. colleague - I do
not bring them all to the House - but, Mr. Speaker, I am
beginning to feel a little bit bad today so I am going
to present two at a time now. I will present two at a
time, Mr. Speaker.
Mr. Speaker, it is an
honour to stand and present a petition again today on
behalf of the residents of Shearstown, Makinsons,
Clarke’s Beach and Carbonear, from the areas that I
represent and other honourable members represent, to ask
government to look at the possibility, again, for a
long-term care facility for the Carbonear area.
The facilities that are
in Carbonear now - everyone knows this; the hon. member
knows as well - those facilities have outlived their
life expectancy and even the professionals that work
there know that we need a new facility in the area.
This government, in 2007,
admitted that it is a requirement for the area, and this
year, I guess, why the petitions started flowing is
because we heard government announce that there would be
$1 million to look at the possibility of two long-term
care facilities for the St. John’s area. They are
saying: Why can’t we have one of those?
We know that it all
can’t be done the one time, and we are very pleased to
know that there were five or six other facilities built
around this Province. Carbonear and St. John’s were at
the top of the list, and we know now there have been
facilities for Corner Brook, Clarenville, Happy
Valley-Goose Bay and Lewisporte, and that is all good.
There is nothing wrong with that, Mr. Speaker, but we
are saying that we are the Conception Bay North area
which takes in Trinity South as well, and the people are
asking government to reconsider their decision last year
not to provide the $1 million for this project to
proceed, and hopefully this year we will hear an
announcement.
I call upon my hon.
colleagues from the adjacent communities to stand behind
their constituents, bring their issues forward, so that
a long-term care facility will become a reality in the
Conception Bay North area.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. |
