McGinty’s Folly: When will this Incompetent Minister Resign?
The Desert Rat’s predictions about Fiona Stanley Hospital blow out have been spot on again. The Carpenter Government Treasury Department projections in mid December Review, which can be read here, show a further $669 million blowout bringing the total blowout to $1321 million and the total cost to $1721 million.
“Of note, the Government has approved a $669 million increase in the cost of the new Fiona Stanley Hospital, bringing the total cost of the project to $1.761 billion. Largely reflecting clinical, service and design-related changes, most of this increase falls outside the current forward estimates period.”
Tim Marney Under Treasurer December 2007 Mid Year Financial Projections (Page 3)
Any normal Minister would have been sacked years ago for this incompetence, but not Jim McGinty – so complete is his hegemony and control over the Cabinet, the Caucus, the State ALP and the instruments of Government.
The table below from the Desert Rat's previous post on Fiona Stanley Hospital, documents the public record statements in Parliament showing McGinty’s mess. The latest Treasury review figures (in green) is concerned only with costs. It does not make any mention of delays in the completion date or changes to the number of beds or designs.
| Year | Cost | Beds | Completion Date | Blowout |
| 2009 | $2 billion? | 2015 | $1600 m 5 years? | |
| 2007 Dec | $1761 | 643? | Early 2013? | $1321 |
| 2006 Dec | $1092 m | 643 | 2012 | $672m Delay 2 yrs |
| 2005 Sept | $ 742 m | 610 | 2011 | $322m Delay 1 yr. |
| 2005 Feb | $420 | 591 | 2010 |
We know McGinty has secretly scrapped the promised Gynaecology and Obstetrics Department from Stage 1 at Fiona Stanley to save money because of the Budget blowout at Kaleeya Hospital resulting from the foolish closure of Woodside Maternity Hospital in East Fremantle.
The blowout in the Fiona Stanley Hospital budget since the last published figure in December 2006 has been $1 830 000 a day!! That an extra dollar a day from every Western Australian!
A fool and his money soon part company is an old maxim. Unfortunately it the taxpayer money that is being lost when the fool should be departing.
The Numbers, and they have not."
Apology to Hilaire Belloc "On power" 1870-1953: The Modern Traveller (1898)
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