Dick slams ‘lazy’ LNP plan
HEALTH Minister Cameron Dick has seized upon his opposite John-Paul Langbroek’s disastrous funding announcement on the Toowoomba Hospital during a last-minute trip to the region.
Standing outside the hospital on Pechey St yesterday, Mr Dick slammed the LNP’s $1.5 million “lazy thought bubble” proposal for a hospitals planning committee to be set up to decide where a new facility should go.
Mr Langbroek’s press conference on Thursday came unstuck when he appeared to not understand what was already funded in the latest budget for Toowoomba Hospital, or how the “independent commission” would work in with it.
While Mr Dick was officially visiting Toowoomba to inspect the work on a $3 million upgrade to the hospital’s emergency department, he couldn’t resist the opportunity to target Mr Langbroek.
“The announcement made yesterday wasn’t so much an announcement as a complete embarrassment,” he said.
“It wasn’t a plan for the future of healthcare, it was a lazy thought bubble.
“I don’t know what Mr Langbroek’s plan is about, certainly the people of Toowoomba don’t know what his plan is about, and it appears to me that Mr Langbroek has no idea what his plan is about.”
Labor’s $3 million funding in the latest budget will build two business cases for the new location of Toowoomba Hospital, with the favourites being the
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It wasn’t so much an announcement as a complete embarrassment.
— Cameron Dick
current site or out at Baillie Henderson. Mr Dick is the highest-profile politician to visit the region since the campaign was launched.